{"product_id":"first-peoples-in-a-new-world-9780520267992","title":"First Peoples in a New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America. This title tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A must read for anyone interested in what is undeniable the greatest debate in American archaeology... Essential.\" Choice \"The book is ... sharply written and narratively compelling.\" -- Mark Dailey Journal Of World History \"A masterful exploration and encapsulation of the last two centuries of American archaeology and the first five millennia of the earliest Americans.\" American Scientist \"Informative and entertaining.\" -- E. James Dixon Antiquity \"A good review of topics and controversies surrounding the peopling of North America.\" -- Susan C. Vehik Great Plains Research \"[Meltzer] has written the most in-depth synthesis of the history of the debate about the early peopling of North America yet published.\" -- Juliet E. Morrow Journal Of Iowa Archeological Society \"Often lively and occasionally bemused, Meltzer's study-part detective story and part archeological research-is stimulating and sometimes tantalizingly controversial.\" Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Overture\u003cbr\u003e On Dates and Dating\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Landscape of Colonization: Glaciers, Climates, and Environments of Ice Age North America\u003cbr\u003e The Younger Dryas: It Came from Outer Space?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians\u003cbr\u003e A Mammoth Fraud in Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Pre-Clovis Controversy and Its Resolution\u003cbr\u003e A Visit to Monte Verde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Non-archaeological Answers to Archaeological Questions\u003cbr\u003e And Then There Was Kennewick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. American Origins: The Search for Consensus\u003cbr\u003e Looking for Clovis in All the Wrong Places\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. What Do You Do When No One’s Been There Before?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Clovis Adaptations and Pleistocene Extinctions\u003cbr\u003e Is Overkill Dead?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Settling In: Late Paleoindians and the Waning Ice Age\u003cbr\u003e Back to Folsom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. When Past and Present Collide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Plates","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402849624407,"sku":"9780520267992","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520267992.jpg?v=1730481676","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/first-peoples-in-a-new-world-9780520267992","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}