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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808846603321

Autore

Stanford Dennis J

Titolo

Across Atlantic ice [[electronic resource] ] : the origin of America's Clovis culture / / Dennis J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley ; foreword by Michael B. Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-09579-2

9786613520470

0-520-94967-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BradleyBruce A. <1948->

Disciplina

970.01/1

Soggetti

Clovis culture

Human beings - Migrations

Indians of North America - Transatlantic influences

Paleo-Indians - Origin

Glacial epoch - North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-299) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Prehistoric Time Line -- Foreword -- Introduction: The First Americans? -- Part 1. Paleolithic Peoples -- Part 2. The Solutrean Hypothesis -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Cluster Analysis -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional-and often subjective-approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological



antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.