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Who were the first Americans? What's their relationship to native peoples in today's Americas? The First Americans uses racial classification and population genetics to show how different methods and assumptions produce very different interpretations of the same skeletal data. Recommended for anthropologists interested in the history of the earliest Americans.

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' … an interesting and provocative standpoint and an enrichment of the general debate.' Journal of Comparative Human Biology

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Prologue: The Kennewick Controversy; Part I. Race and Variation: 1. Debating the origins of Native Americans; 2. A brief history of race; 3. Evolutionary approaches to human variation; 4. Recent population variation in the Americas; Part II. The Pleistocene Peopling of America: 5. The Pleistocene and Ice-Age environments; 6. Ancient cultures and migration to the Americas; 7. Kennewick Man and his contemporaries; 8. Human variation in the Pleistocene; Part III. The First Americans, Race and Evolution: 9. Racial models of Native American origins; 10. Evolutionary models of Native American origins; 11. The first Americans: Native American origins; Bibliography.

The First Americans

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 6 October 2005
      ISBN-13 9780521530354
      978-0521530354
      ISBN-10 0521530350
      Also in:
      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Who were the first Americans? What's their relationship to native peoples in today's Americas? The First Americans uses racial classification and population genetics to show how different methods and assumptions produce very different interpretations of the same skeletal data. Recommended for anthropologists interested in the history of the earliest Americans.

      Trade Review

      ' … an interesting and provocative standpoint and an enrichment of the general debate.' Journal of Comparative Human Biology

      Table of Contents

      Prologue: The Kennewick Controversy; Part I. Race and Variation: 1. Debating the origins of Native Americans; 2. A brief history of race; 3. Evolutionary approaches to human variation; 4. Recent population variation in the Americas; Part II. The Pleistocene Peopling of America: 5. The Pleistocene and Ice-Age environments; 6. Ancient cultures and migration to the Americas; 7. Kennewick Man and his contemporaries; 8. Human variation in the Pleistocene; Part III. The First Americans, Race and Evolution: 9. Racial models of Native American origins; 10. Evolutionary models of Native American origins; 11. The first Americans: Native American origins; Bibliography.

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