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Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America edited by Renee B. Walker and Boyce N. Driskell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--North America.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Hunting and gathering societies--North America.
- Hunting and gathering societies.
- Paleo-Indians--Antiquities.
- Paleo-Indians.
- North America--Antiquities.
- North America.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in the New World employed and that they also relied on foraging and fishing.
- Contents:
- Introduction: New developments in Paleoindian subsistence studies / Renee B. Walker and Boyce N. Driskell
- Quacks in the ice : waterfowl, Paleoindians, and the discovery of America / Stuart J. Fiedel
- Faunal extinction, hunter-gatherer foraging strategies, and subsistence diversity among eastern Beringian Paleoindians / David R. Yesner
- Are Paleoindians of the Great Plains and Rockies subsistence specialists? / Marcel Kornfeld
- Discerning clovis subsistence from stone artifacts and site distributions on the southern Plains periphery / Michael B. Collins
- Late Paleoindian subsistence strategies in the western Great Lakes region : evidence for generalized foraging from northern Wisconsin / Steven R. Kuehn
- Hunting in the late Paleoindian period : faunal remains from Dust Cave, Alabama / Renee B. Walker
- Seed collecting and fishing at the Shawnee Minisink Paleoindian site : everyday life in the late Pleistocene / Richard J. Dent
- Gathering in the late Paleoindian period : archaeobotanical remains from Dust Cave, Alabama / Kandace D. Hollenbach
- Revising the paleoindian environmental picture in northeastern North America / Lucinda McWeeney
- Early Floridians and late megamammals : some technological and dietary evidence from four north Florida Paleoindian sites / James S. Dunbar and Pamela K. Vojnovski
- Ethnography, analogy, and the reconstruction of Paleoindian lifeways / Asa R. Randall and Kandace D. Hollenbach
- Making sense of Paleoindian subsistence strategies / Boyce N. Driskell and Renee B. Walker.
- Notes:
- Some chapters originally presented at a Society for American Archaeology symposium in 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-315) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610823888
- 9781280823886
- 1280823887
- 9780803207646
- 0803207646
- OCLC:
- 476036035
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