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Since 1977, archaeologist Tom Dillehay has been unearthing conclusive evidence of human habitation in the Americas at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, settling a bitter debate and demolishing the standard scientific account of the settlement of the Americas. The question of how people first came to the Americas is now thrown wide open: the best guess is that they arrived from a variety of places, at many different times and by many different routes....
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When did the first settlers of the Americas arrive? What can we discover about their culture? Distinguished archaeologists and anthropologists take advantage of fresh finds from major excavations, and developments in dating techniques and paleoecology to discuss the origins and migrations of early people in ancient North America. Controversies in the field are faced, the application of new techniques examined, and new areas for inquiry identified....
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It is now thought possible that man lived in the Western Hemisphere as much as 100,000 years ago. By reading the articles in this collection, the student can trace the acceptance during the past two decades of increasingly earlier dates for the arrival of man in American. A reading of these articles will also give the student a basic understanding of how modern archaeological techniques are used to reconstruct dectials of early Indian life. In his...
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Charles Mann takes us on a journey of scientific exploration. We learn that the Indian development of modern corn was one of the most complex feats of genetic engineering ever performed. That the Great Plains are a third smaller today than they were in 1700 because the Indians who maintained them by burning died. And that the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact.
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