First Peoples in a New World

Colonizing Ice Age America

David J. Meltzer

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California Uni Pr Trade
30 November 2010

History; History of the Americas; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Physical anthropology & ethnography

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.

By: David J. Meltzer
Imprint: California Uni Pr Trade
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 998g
ISBN: 9780520267992
ISBN 10: 0520267990
Publication Date: 30 November 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America

A must read for anyone interested in what is undeniable the greatest debate in American archaeology... Essential. --Choice A masterful exploration and encapsulation of the last two centuries of American archaeology and the first five millennia of the earliest Americans. --American Scientist Informative and entertaining. --Antiquity A good review of topics and controversies surrounding the peopling of North America. --Great Plains Research