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Zusatztext "This book is an important contribution...it should absolutely be on the shelf of any conscientious archaeologist." Informationen zum Autor Dennis J. Stanford is Curator of Archaeology and Director of the Paleoindian Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Among his books is Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies . Bruce A. Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter and Director of its Experimental Archaeology Programme. His books include Clovis Technology . Klappentext " Across Atlantic Ice is brilliant and ground-breaking. As fascinating as it is controversial! this book brings together decades of research from diverse areas into a single volume that is well argued! factually rich! elegantly written--and absolutely riveting. I could not put it down." -Douglas Preston! author of Cities of Gold ! Thunderhead ! and former archaeology correspondent for The New Yorker magazine "In their well-written and well-reasoned exploration of the first inhabitants of the Americas! Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley have provided a viable alternative scenario. I am not a trained professional! but I have been reading the archeological literature for thirty-five years. Their argument is logical and should be given an open-minded hearing." -Jean M. Auel! author of The Land of Painted Caves and The Clan of the Cave Bear "This carefully crafted! well-researched book aims to change our thinking of who the first Americans were and where they came from. Stanford and Bradley have produced an ambitious! interdisciplinary study of a neglected route of early entry into the Americas that will affect the way the larger narrative of the first chapter of human history in the New World is written." -Tom D. Dillehay! author of The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory Zusammenfassung Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, this book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Tables Prehistoric Time Line Foreword by Michael B. Collins Introduction: The First Americans? Part 1. Paleolithic Peoples 1. Flaked Stone Technology: A Primer 2. Clovis: The First American Settlers? 3. Beringia: Out of Asia on Foot 4. Challenging the Clovis First Model: The Missing Links 5. The Solutrean: Ice Age Innovators Part 2. The Solutrean Hypothesis 6. Quantitative Culture Comparison 7. Qualitative Culture Comparison 8. The Solutrean Maritime Adaptation 9. The Last Glacial Maximum: How Bad Was the Weather? 10. Living on the Ice Edge: Ethnographic Analogies Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Cluster Analysis Notes References Index ...
