Research Catalog

Title

Paleoamerican origins : beyond Clovis / edited by Robson Bonnichsen [and others].

Publication

College Station, TX : Center for the Study of the First Americans : Distributed by the Texas A&M University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Bonnichsen, Robson.

Description

ix, 368 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 29 cm

Subjects

• Paleo-Indians > North America
• Clovis culture
• Paleoecology > North America > Pleistocene
• North America > Antiquities

Note

• Peopling of the Americas publication. "Peopling of the Americas publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

An introduction to Paleoamerican origins / Robson Bonnichsen -- Changing perceptions of Paleoamerican prehistory / Robson Bonnichsen and Bradley T. Lepper -- A long view of deep time at Meadowcroft rockshelter / J. M. Adovasio and D. R. Pedler -- Pleistocene human occupation of the Southeastern United States : research directions for the early 21st century / David G. Anderson -- Comparing Clovis and the Western European upper Paleolithic : what are the rules of evidence? / Michael B. Collins -- More bits and pieces : a new look at Lahontan chronology and human occupation / Amy J. Dansie and Wm. Jerry Jerrems -- The Ryan/Harley Site 8Je1004 : a Suwannee point site in the Wacissa River, North Florida / James S. Dunbar, C. Andrew Hemmings, Pamela K. Vojnovski, S. David Webb and William M. Stanton -- Rapid Clovis colonization of the Americas : chronological evidence and archaeological analogues / Stuart J. Fiedel -- Evidence of pre-Clovis sites in the Eastern United States / Albert C. Goodyear -- Clovis, pre-Clovis, climate change, and extinction / C. Vance Haynes, Jr. -- Envisioning water transport technology in late-Pleistocene America / Margaret A. Jodry -- Late-Wisconsinan mammoth procurement in the North American grasslands / Eileen Johnson -- Late-glacial ice-marginal adaptation in Southeastern Wisconsin / David F. Overstreet -- The ignored continent : South America in models of earliest American prehistory / Ruth Gruhn -- Hunting and butchering events at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition in Piedra Museo : an example of adaptation strategies of the first colonizers of Patagonia / Laura Miotti and Monica Salemme -- Tracking genes through time and space : changing perspectives on new world origins / Theodore G. Schurr -- Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups of Paleoamericans in North America / David Glenn Smith, Ripan S. Malhi, Jason A. Eshleman, Frederika A. Kaestle and Brian M. Kemp -- Appearance of the "Mongoloid skeletal trait complex" in the Northwestern Great Plains : migration, selection, or both? / George W. Gill -- Circumpacific populations and the peopling of the new world : evidence from cranial morphometrics / Richard L. Jantz and Douglas W. Owsley -- Patterns of craniometric variation and geographical distribution in North America : a historical comparison / A. Russell Nelson -- Nearsightedness in Paleoamerican research : historical perspective and contemporary analysis / Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz -- Where are we going? : public policy and science / Alan L. Schneider and Robson Bonnichsen -- Paleoamerican origins : models, evidence, and future directions / Dennis Stanford, Robson Bonnichsen, Betty Meggers and D. Gentry Steele.

ISBN

1585445401

LCCN

• 2005054293
• 9781585445400

OCLC

• OCM61758058
• SCSB-5256261

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries