The first Americans : race, evolution and the origin of Native Americans /

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Author / Creator:Powell, Joseph F. (Joseph Frederick), 1964-
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:viii, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5776769
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ISBN:0521823501
0521530350 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-264) and index.
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