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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America

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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the most greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North The united states, a continent that used to be then in reality a new world. Just when and how they did so has been probably the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, state of the art 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 The united states. David J. Meltzer pulls together the recent ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in contemporary 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, it is a compelling in the back of-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past.

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