Across Atlantic ice : the origin of America's Clovis culture /
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Author / Creator: | Stanford, Dennis J. |
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Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149675 |
Other authors / contributors: | Bradley, Bruce A., 1948- |
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ISBN: | 1280095792 9781280095795 9780520227835 0520227832 9780520949676 0520949676 |
Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-299) and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | "Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter --- often subjective---approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the 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."--Publisher's description. |
Other form: | Print version: Stanford, Dennis J. Across Atlantic ice. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 |
Standard no.: | 9786613520470 |
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