LEADER 03711nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910818503203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-36087-6 010 $a9786612360879 010 $a0-520-94315-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520943155 035 $a(CKB)1000000000807574 035 $a(EBL)470958 035 $a(OCoLC)609850106 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000296474 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11251130 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296474 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10327270 035 $a(PQKB)10950837 035 $a(DE-B1597)519725 035 $a(OCoLC)1110707089 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520943155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470958 035 $a(dli)HEB33869 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001080 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000807574 100 $a20080814d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFirst peoples in a new world $ecolonizing ice age America /$fDavid J. Meltzer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (481 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-25052-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [345]-420) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$t1. OVERTURE --$t2. THE LANDSCAPE OF COLONIZATION --$t3. FROM PALEOLITHS TO PALEOINDIANS --$t4. THE PRE-CLOVIS CONTROVERSY AND ITS RESOLUTION --$t5. NON-ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANSWERS TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS --$t6. American Origins: The Search for Consensus --$t7. What Do You Do When No One's Been There Before? --$t8. CLOVIS ADAPTATIONS AND PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTIONS --$t9. Settling In: Late Paleoindians and the Waning Ice Age --$t10. WHEN PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE --$tFURTHER READING --$tNOTES --$tREFERENCES --$tINDEX 330 $aMore 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. 606 $aPaleo-Indians$zNorth America 606 $aGlacial epoch$zNorth America 607 $aNorth America$xAntiquities 615 0$aPaleo-Indians 615 0$aGlacial epoch 676 $a970.01 700 $aMeltzer$b David J$01026575 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818503203321 996 $aFirst Peoples in a New World$92666184 997 $aUNINA