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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dixon, E. James. Bones, boats & bison. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607445972 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
E James Dixon |
| ISBN: | 0826320570 9780826320575 0826321380 9780826321381 |
| OCLC Number: | 42022335 |
| Description: | xiv, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The Dawn of Paleoindian Archeology -- The First Colonization of North America -- North America's Oldest Sites -- Early Sites in Mexico, and Central and South America -- Learning from Those Who Have Gone Before -- Interpreting Cultural Development -- Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Prior to 8,000 B.P -- The Far West and Mexico Prior to 8,000 B.P. -- The Great Plains Prior to 8,000 B.P. |
| Other Titles: | Bones, boats, and bison |
| Responsibility: | E. James Dixon. |
Abstract:
"This revolutionary archeological synthesis argues an alternative model of the earliest human population of North America. E. James Dixon dispels the stereotype of big-game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge and paints a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World. Applying contemporary scientific methods and drawing on new archeological discoveries, he advances evidence indicating that humans first reached the Americas using water craft along the deglaciated Northwest Coast about 13,500 years ago, some 2,000 years before the first Clovis hunters, Dixon's rigorous evaluation of the oldest North American archeological sites and human remains offers well-reasoned hypotheses about the physical characteristics, lives, and relationships of the First Americans. His crisply written analysis of scientific exploration is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Paleo-Indians -- North America.
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- Indians -- Origin.
- North America -- Antiquities.
- West (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
- Indiens du paléolithique -- Amérique du Nord.
- Indiens du paléolithique -- États-Unis (Ouest)
- Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord -- Antiquités.
- Indiens d'Amérique -- Origines.
- Amérique du Nord -- Antiquités.
- États-Unis (Ouest) -- Antiquités.
- Indiens -- Origines.
- Indiens -- Amérique du Nord -- Antiquités préhistoriques.
- Paléoindiens -- Amérique du Nord.
- Paléoindiens -- États-Unis (ouest).
- Amérique du Nord -- Antiquités préhistoriques.
- États-Unis (ouest) -- Antiquités préhistoriques.
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte
- Nordamerika
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