The settlement of the American continents : a multidisciplinary approach to human biogeography / edited by C. Michael Barton ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barton, C. Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Human geography--Western Hemisphere.

Human geography.

Human ecology--Western Hemisphere.

Human ecology.

Paleo-Indians--Migrations.

Paleo-Indians.

Land settlement patterns--Western Hemisphere.

Land settlement patterns.

Western Hemisphere.

Physical Description:

vi, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2004]

Contents:

1 An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Long-Term Human Biogeography and the Pleistocene Colonization of the Americas / Geoffrey A. Clark, C. Michael Barton, Georges A. Pearson, David R. Yesner 1

I The First American Settlers 9

2 An Anthropological Genetic View of the Peopling of the New World / Theodore G. Schurr 11

3 Peopling of the New World: A Comparative Craniofacial View / C. Loring Brace, A. Russell Nelson, Pan Qifeng 28

4 Evaluating Historical Linguistic Evidence for Ancient Human Communities in the Americas / Jane H. Hill 39

5 The Concept of Clovis and the peopling of North America / Kenneth B. Tankersley 49

6 A Review of Bioarchaeological Thought on the Peopling of the New World / Kamille R. Schmitz 64

II The Trail to the Americas 77

7 Rapid Migrations by Arctic Hunting Peoples: Clovis and Thule / Stuart J. Fiedel 79

8 Pan-American Paleoindian Dispersals and the Origins of Fishtail Projectile Points as Seen through the Lithic Raw-Material Reduction Strategies and Tool-Manufacturing Techniques at the Guardiria Site, Turrialba Valley, Costa Rica / Georges A. Pearson 85

9 Deconstructing the North Atlantic Connection / Geoffrey A. Clark 103

10 Invented Traditions and the Ultimate American Origin Myth: In the Beginning ... There Was an Ice-Free Corridor / Carole A. S. Mandryk 113

III The Land and People Transformed 121

11 Modeling the Initial Colonization of the Americas: Issues of Scale, Demography, and Landscape Learning / David J. Meltzer 123

12 The Ecology of Human Colonization in Pristine Landscapes / C. Michael Barton, Steven Schmich, Steven R. James 138

13 Beyond "Big": Gender, Age, and Subsistence Diversity in Paleoindian Societies / Elizabeth S. Chilton 162

14 Early Paleoindians as Estate Settlers: Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Evolutionary Insights into the Peopling of the New World / Douglas H. MacDonald 173

15 Late Pleistocene Extinctions through Second-Order Predation / Elin Whitney-Smith 177

16 Megafauna, Paleoindians, Petroglyphs, and Pictographs of the Colorado Plateau / Larry D. Agenbroad, India S. Hesse 189

17 Peopling of the Americas and Continental Colonization: A Millennial Perspective / David R. Yesner, C. Michael Barton, Geoffrey A. Clark, Georges A. Pearson 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-271) and index.

ISBN:

0816523231

OCLC:

53830999