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Lost world : rewriting prehistory-- : how new science is tracing America's Ice Age mariners

Title
Lost world : rewriting prehistory-- : how new science is tracing America's Ice Age mariners / Tom Koppel.
Author
Koppel, Tom.
Publication
New York : Atria Books, ©2003.

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Description
xvii, 300 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Summary
Investigates the latest research from archaeologists, geologists, biologists, and paleontologists that reveals new evidence that the earliest human inhabitants of the New World came by sea in small boats following the coast.
Subject
  • Coastal archaeology
  • Prehistoric peoples
  • Underwater archaeology
  • Glacial epoch > Alaska
  • Glacial epoch > California
  • Peuples autochtones du paléolithique > Amérique du Nord > Nord-Ouest, Côte
  • Navigation préhistorique > Amérique du Nord > Nord-Ouest, Côte
  • Archéologie côtière > Amérique du Nord > Nord-Ouest, Côte
  • Archéologie sous-marine > Amérique du Nord > Nord-Ouest, Côte
  • Époque glaciaire > Amérique du Nord > Nord-Ouest, Côte
  • Archéologie côtière
  • Archéologie sous-marine
  • Époque glaciaire > Alaska
  • underwater archaeology
  • Antiquities
  • Coastal archaeology
  • Glacial epoch
  • Prehistoric peoples
  • Underwater archaeology
  • Northwest Coast of North America > Antiquities
  • Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Antiquités
  • Alaska
  • California
  • North America > Northwest Coast of North America
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Contents
Chapter 1 Cave of the Bears 1 -- Chapter 2 Northern Connection 12 -- Chapter 3 Important Artifacts Found 26 -- Chapter 4 Clovis First 43 -- Chapter 5 Coastal Network 61 -- Chapter 6 Barnacles and Bones 77 -- Chapter 7 Orcas Bring Good Luck 98 -- Chapter 8 Ancient Mariners 120 -- Chapter 9 Archaeology Gets Its Feet Wet 134 -- Chapter 10 Long Chronology 147 -- Chapter 11 Maverick Archaeologist 164 -- Chapter 12 Boulders That Talk 181 -- Chapter 13 Needle in a Haystack 192 -- Chapter 14 Archaeology's Gold Standard 204 -- Chapter 15 All Alone Stone 221 -- Chapter 16 Arlington Woman 241 -- Chapter 17 Emerging Consensus 258 -- Chapter 18 Ancient Odyssey 279.
ISBN
  • 0743453573
  • 9780743453578
  • 9780743453592
  • 074345359X
LCCN
2004266616
OCLC
  • ocm52467703
  • 52467703
  • SCSB-1296720
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library