Entering America : northeast Asia and Beringia before the last glacial maximum /

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Imprint:Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2004.
Description:vi, 486 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5456595
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Other authors / contributors:Madsen, David B.
ISBN:0874807867 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-470) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1.. Colonization of the Americas before the Last Glacial Maximum: Issues and Problems
  • I.. Environmental Conditions in Northeast Asia and Northwestern North America
  • 2.. Paleoenvironmental Conditions in Western Beringia before and during the Last Glacial Maximum
  • 3.. Environments of Northwestern North America before the Last Glacial Maximum
  • II.. The Implications of American Archaeology for a Pre- or Post-late Glacial Maximum Occupation of the New World
  • 4.. Late Wisconsin Environments and Archaeological Visibility on the Northern Northwest Coast
  • 5.. Pre-Clovis Sites and Their Implications for Human Occupation before the Last Glacial Maximum
  • 6.. The Nature of Clovis Blades and Blade Cores
  • III.. Human Genetics and Forager Mobility
  • 7.. Molecular Genetic Diversity in Siberians and Native Americans Suggests an Early Colonization of the New World
  • 8.. Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion in North Asia and the New World
  • IV.. The Archaeology of Northeast Asia
  • 9.. Time-Space Dynamics in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Northeast Asia
  • 10.. Humans along the Pacific Margin of Northeast Asia before the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence for Their Presence and Adaptations
  • 11.. The Search for a Clovis Progenitor in Subarctic Siberia
  • V.. Commentary
  • 12.. On Possibilities, Prospecting, and Patterns: Thinking about a Pre-LGM Human Presence in the Americas
  • 13.. Monte Verde, Field Archaeology, and the Human Colonization of the Americas
  • 14.. Recapitulation: The Relative Probabilities of Late Pre-LGM or Early Post-LGM Ages for the Initial Occupation of the Americas
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index