First peoples in a new world : colonizing ice age America / David J. Meltzer.

Author/creator Meltzer, David J.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxviii, 446 pages 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Paleo-Indians--North America.
Glacial epoch--North America.
North America--Antiquities.

Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Overture -- On dates and dating -- 2. The landscape of colonization : glaciers, climates, and environments of Ice Age North America -- The Younger Dryas : it came from outer space? -- 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians -- A mammoth fraud in science -- 4. The pre-Clovis controversy and its resolution -- A visit to Monte Verde -- 5. Non-archaeological answers to archaeological questions -- And then there was Kennewick -- 6. American origins : the search for consensus -- Looking for Clovis in all the wrong places -- 7. What do you do when no one's been there before? -- 8. Clovis adaptations and Pleistocene extinctions -- Is overkill dead? -- 9. Settling in : Late Paleoindians and the waning Ice Age -- Back to Folsom -- 10. When past and present collide -- Further reading -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [345]-420) and index.
LCCN 2008035901
ISBN9780520250529 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520250524 (cloth : alk. paper)