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American dawn : a new model of American prehistory

Title
American dawn : a new model of American prehistory / by Louis A. Brennan.
Author
Brennan, Louis A.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Macmillan Co., ©1970.

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Description
viii, 390 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Suggests that the first men were of the pebble tool chopper tradition who used stone projectile points on wide-ranging big hunts. Furthermore he believes they were the antecedents of the Asian immigrants previously thought to have been the primal tribe on the continent.
Subject
  • Indians > Origin
  • Paleo-Indians
  • Indians > Antiquities
  • Peuples autochtones > Origines
  • Peuples autochtones du paléolithique
  • Peuples autochtones > Antiquités
  • 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
  • Antiquities
  • Archeologie
  • Prehistorie
  • America > Antiquities
  • Amérique > Antiquités
  • America
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 371-378.
Contents
The subject is models -- Up the down corridor -- The accurate atom -- Don't raise the bridge-lower the river -- The ups and downs of Beringia -- Rocks of ages -- Fractured evidence -- Meridional America -- The users of the fruits -- The conservifructians and the cultifructians -- Rise and fall of the Shamans -- Sea change -- The future of the past.
LCCN
71093718
OCLC
  • ocm00093203
  • 93203
  • SCSB-249013
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library