First Peoples in a New World - Populating Ice Age America

A study of Ice Age Americans, highlighting genetic, archaeological and geological evidence that has revolutionized our understanding of their origins, antiquity, and adaptations.

List of contents

1. Overture; 2. Glaciers, climates and environments of Ice Age North America; 3. The search for Ice Age Americans: the path from Paleoliths to Paleoindians; 4. Ascertaining archaeological evidence of antiquity; 5. What language, skeletal anatomy and genetics reveal (or not) of the population history of the Americas; 6. Who, from where, when and how? The search for consensus; 7. What do you do when no one's been there before?; 8. Clovis adaptations and Pleistocene Megafaunal extinctions; 9. Settling in: late Paleoindians and the waning ice age; 10. When past and present collide.

About the author

David Meltzer is the Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory at Southern Methodist University.  He has conducted archaeological research throughout North America, and is the author of 10 books and nearly 190 scientific articles. He is a fellow of the United State National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Product details

• Authors: David J. Meltzer, David J. (Southern Methodist University Meltzer, Meltzer David J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108735476
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73547-6
• No. of pages: 500
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, History of the Americas, Prehistoric archaeology, Environmental archaeology, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity