Entering America : northeast Asia and Beringia before the last glacial maximum / / edited by D.B. Madsen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962355003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-60781-785-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (493 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MadsenDavid B
• Disciplina: 970.01/1
• Soggetti: Paleo-Indians - Migrations; Human beings - Bering Land Bridge - Migrations; Paleoecology - Asia; Paleoecology - North America; Human population genetics - Asia; Human population genetics - North America; Clovis culture; Asia Environmental conditions; North America Environmental conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-470) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- 1. Colonization of the Americas before the Last Glacial Maximum:Issues and Problems -- I. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN NORTHEAST ASIA AND NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA -- 2. Paleoenvironmental Conditions in Western Beringia before and during the Last Glacial Maximum -- 3. Environments of Northwestern North America before the Last Glacial Maximum -- II. THE IMPLICATIONS OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY FOR A PRE- OR POST-LATE GLACIAL MAXIMUM OCCUPATION OF THE NEW WORLD -- 4. Late Wisconsin Environments and Archaeological Visibility on the Northern Northwest Coast -- 5. Pre-Clovis Sites and Their Implications for Human Occupation before the Last Glacial Maximum -- 6. The Nature of Clovis Blades and Blade Cores -- III. HUMAN GENETICS AND FORAGER MOBILITY -- 7. Molecular Genetic Diversity in Siberians and Native AmericansSuggests an Early Colonization of the New World -- 8. Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion in North Asia and the New ; World -- IV. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTHEAST ASIA -- 9. Time-Space Dynamics in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Northeast Asia -- 10. Humans along the Pacific Margin of Northeast Asia before the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence for Their Presence and Adaptations -- 11. The Search for a Clovis Progenitor in Subarctic Siberia -- V. COMMENTARY -- 12. On Possibilities, Prospecting, and Patterns: Thinking about a Pre-LGM Human Presence in the Americas -- 13. Monte Verde, Field Archaeology, and the Human Colonization of the Americas -- 14. Recapitulation: The Relative Probabilities of Late Pre-LGM or Early Post-LGM Ages for the Initial Occupation of the Americas -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Where did the first Americans come from and when did they get here?That basic question of American archaeology, long thought to have been solved, is re-emerging as a critical issue as the number of well-excavated sites dating to pre-Clovis times increases.