David J Meltzer

First Peoples in a New World

Populating Ice Age America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of Ice Age Americans, highlighting genetic, archaeological and geological evidence that has revolutionized our understanding of their origins, antiquity, and adaptations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 203mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9781108498227
• ISBN-10: 1108498221
• Artikelnr.: 62216088

Autorenporträt

David Meltzer is the Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory at Southern Methodist University.  He has conducted archaeological research throughout North America, and is the author of 10 books and nearly 190 scientific articles. He is a fellow of the United State National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Overture
2. Glaciers, climates and environments of Ice Age North America
3. The search for Ice Age Americans: the path from Paleoliths to Paleoindians
4. Ascertaining archaeological evidence of antiquity
5. What language, skeletal anatomy and genetics reveal (or not) of the population history of the Americas
6. Who, from where, when and how? The search for consensus
7. What do you do when no one's been there before?
8. Clovis adaptations and Pleistocene Megafaunal extinctions
9. Settling in: late Paleoindians and the waning ice age
10. When past and present collide.