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American beginnings : the prehistory and palaeoecology of Beringia

Title
American beginnings : the prehistory and palaeoecology of Beringia / edited by Frederick Hadleigh West ; with the assistance of Constance F. West [and others].
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • West, Frederick Hadleigh.
  • West, Constance F.
Description
xxi, 576 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm
Summary
During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America.
Subject
  • Antiquities, Prehistoric > Bering Land Bridge
  • Paleo-Indians > Bering Land Bridge
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Russia (Federation)
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Alaska
  • Paleontology > Bering Land Bridge
  • Palynology > Bering Land Bridge
  • Peuples autochtones du paléolithique > Béringie
  • Fouilles (Archéologie) > Russie
  • Paléontologie > Béringie
  • Palynologie > Béringie
  • 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
  • Antiquities
  • Antiquities, Prehistoric
  • Excavations (Archaeology)
  • Paleo-Indians
  • Paleontology
  • Palynology
  • Palökologie
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Prehistorie
  • Paleo-ecologie
  • Antiquités préhistoriques > Béring, Détroit de (région)
  • Paléoindiens > Béring, Détroit de (région)
  • Fouilles archéologiques > Béring, Détroit de (région)
  • Paléoenvironnement > Béring, Détroit de (région)
  • Bering Land Bridge > Antiquities
  • Alaska
  • Arctic Ocean > Bering Land Bridge
  • Russia (Federation)
  • Beringstraße > Region
  • Beringstraße (Region)
  • archeologie
  • archaeology
  • biogeografie
  • biogeography
  • palynologie
  • palynology
  • paleontologie
  • palaeontology
  • onderzoek
  • research
  • prehistorie
  • prehistory
  • overblijfselen
  • remains
  • Archaeology
  • Archeologie
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: The Concept of Beringia / David M. Hopkins -- Preamble: The Study of Beringia / Frederick H. West -- Introduction: Reconstructing the Environment / Paul A. Colinvaux -- Ch. 1. Geological Records. Late Pleistocene Stratigraphic Sections from Northern Alaska / Thomas D. Hamilton. Late Quaternary Aeolian Deposits of the Holitna Lowland, Interior Southwestern Alaska / Christopher F. Waythomas. Loess-Ice Formation in Northeastern Asia / T.D. Morozova and Andrej A. Velichko. Palaeogeography of Beringia and Arctida / Savelii V. Tomirdiaro -- Ch. 2. Biotic Records. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Pollen Records from the Southern Brooks Range / Patricia M. Anderson and Linda B. Brubaker. Pollen Records: Barrow, Pribilof Archipelago, and Imuruk Lake / Paul A. Colinvaux. Pollen Records from Archaeological Sites in the Aldanskiy Region, Sakha Republic / G.M. Savvinova, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva and Yuri A. Mochanov.
ISBN
  • 0226893995
  • 9780226893990
  • 0226894002
  • 9780226894003
LCCN
96011719
OCLC
  • ocm34409690
  • 34409690
  • SCSB-8877314
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library