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Bones, boats & bison : archeology and the first colonization of western North America

Title: Bones, boats & bison : archeology and the first colonization of western North America / E. James Dixon.
Author: Dixon, E. James.
Publication: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1999.

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Description

xiv, 322 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This revolutionary archeological synthesis argues an alternative model of the earliest human population of North America. E. James Dixon dispels the stereotype of big-game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge and paints a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World. Applying contemporary scientific methods and drawing on new archeological discoveries, he advances evidence indicating that humans first reached the Americas using water craft along the deglaciated Northwest Coast about 13,500 years ago, some 2,000 years before the first Clovis hunters, Dixon's rigorous evaluation of the oldest North American archeological sites and human remains offers well-reasoned hypotheses about the physical characteristics, lives, and relationships of the First Americans. His crisply written analysis of scientific exploration is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Bones, boats, and bison

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-312) and index.

Contents

The Dawn of Paleoindian Archeology -- The First Colonization of North America -- North America's Oldest Sites -- Early Sites in Mexico, and Central and South America -- Learning from Those Who Have Gone Before -- Interpreting Cultural Development -- Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Prior to 8,000 B.P -- The Far West and Mexico Prior to 8,000 B.P. -- The Great Plains Prior to 8,000 B.P.

ISBN

0826320570
9780826320575
0826321380
9780826321381

LCCN

99041913

OCLC

ocm42022335
42022335
SCSB-965634

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library