Across Atlantic Ice

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The Origin of America's Clovis Culture

Dennis J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley, Michael Collins

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University of California Press
03 June 2013

History; History of the Americas; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Archaeology by period & region; Sociology & anthropology

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.

By: Dennis J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley
Foreword by: Michael Collins
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780520275782
ISBN 10: 0520275780
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 June 2013
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations and Tables Prehistoric Time Line Foreword by Michael B. Collins Introduction: The First Americans? Part 1. Paleolithic Peoples 1. Flaked Stone Technology: A Primer 2. Clovis: The First American Settlers? 3. Beringia: Out of Asia on Foot 4. Challenging the Clovis First Model: The Missing Links 5. The Solutrean: Ice Age Innovators Part 2. The Solutrean Hypothesis 6. Quantitative Culture Comparison 7. Qualitative Culture Comparison 8. The Solutrean Maritime Adaptation 9. The Last Glacial Maximum: How Bad Was the Weather? 10. Living on the Ice Edge: Ethnographic Analogies Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Cluster Analysis Notes References Index

Dennis J. Stanford is Curator of Archaeology and Director of the Paleoindian Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Among his books is Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies. Bruce A. Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter and Director of its Experimental Archaeology Programme. His books include Clovis Technology.