The First Americans – The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World (Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology) - Hardcover

Jablonski, N G

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940228491 ISBN 13: 9780940228498

Publisher: University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

As modern humans spread around the globe, the Americas represented the final continental frontier. These first colonists were modern in appearance and technology, but who were they and when did they arrive? Traditional answers to these questions have come under increasing scrutiny in the face of new findings from artifacts, skeletal remains, genes, and languages. The peopling of the Americas has become one of archaeology's most compelling and contentious subjects, as these new lines of evidence reveal a more complex solution. In this volume, distinguished scientists from the fields of archaeology, physical anthropology, paleoecology, genetics, and linguistics assess the latest evidence from Siberia to Chile and offer provocative ideas for how, when, and where humans entered the Americas. Contributors of this title include: Bruce Bradley, Linda Brown, Scott A. Elias, Tom D. Dillehay, John Douglas, Jon M. Erlandson, Nina G. Jablonski, David J. Meltzer, D. Andrew Merriwether, Johanna Nichols, Joseph F. Powell, Anna C. Roosevelt, Jack Rossen, Dennis Stanford, D. Gentry Steele, and Christy G. Turner II Distributed for the California Academy of Sciences.

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About the Author

Nina G. Jablonski is Irvine Chair and Curator of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. She coedited Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol (1997) and The Origin and Diversification of Language (1998), California.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940228491
• ISBN 13: 9780940228498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 343