Description: Further DetailsTitle: First Peoples in a New WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9780520267992ISBN: 9780520267992Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/30/2010Item Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 998gAuthor: David J. MeltzerLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Colonizing Ice Age AmericaISBN-10: 0520267990Description: More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere's oldest and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna.Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: First Peoples in a New World
Title: First Peoples in a New World
EAN: 9780520267992
ISBN: 9780520267992
Release Date: 11/30/2010
Release Year: 2010
Subtitle: Colonizing Ice Age America
ISBN-10: 0520267990
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: First Peoples in a New World : Colonizing Ice Age America
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Topic: Archaeology, Life Sciences / Evolution, Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Anthropology / Physical
Publication Year: 2010
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Science
Item Weight: 35.3 Oz
Item Length: 1 in
Author: David J. Meltzer
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
