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Examines the theories of archaeologists who are searching for clues to the identity of the first people to reach North America between 11,000 and 50,000 years ago.

"Who were the first Americans? What is their relationship to living native peoples in the Americas? What do their remains tell us of the current concepts of racial variation, and short-term evolutionary change and adaptation. The First Americans explores these questions by using racial classifications and microevolutionary techniques to better understand who colonized the Americas and how. It will be required reading for all those interested in anthropology,...

What was life really like for the first humans in North America? Using stunning reconstructions and location filming to evoke a time long past, this A & E Special opens a door into a world where woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, and great saber-toothed cats still roam. Additional segments spotlight cutting-edge research that is vastly improving the scientific community's understanding of what exactly happened some 12,000 years ago to forever change...

From the Publisher: 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...

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...

The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture, tells a radically new story, thanks...

Author David La Vere offers a complete chronological and cultural history of Texas Indians from twelve thousand years ago to the present day. He presents a unique view of their cultural history before and after European arrival, examining Indian interactions-both peaceful and violent-with Europeans, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans.

Kennewick Man, known as the Ancient One to Native Americans, has been the lightning rod for conflict between archaeologists and Indigenous peoples in the United States. A decade-long legal case pitted scientists against Native American communities and highlighted the shortcomings of the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), designed to protect Native remains. In this volume, we hear from the many sides of this issue - archaeologists,...