The great journey : the peopling of ancient America

Fagan, Brian M. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 081302756X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Edition: Updated ed., 2nd paperback ed.
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-276) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : an archaeological drama -- Pt. 1. Ideas -- 1. Friars antiquarians, and moundbuilders -- 2. Palaeoliths and extinct animals -- Pt. 2. Ancestry -- 3. In the beginning : act 1, scene 1 : Africa, Europe, and Asia from about 2 million to 35,000 years ago -- 4. Modern humans take the stage : act 1, scene 2 : Europe and Asia 35,000 to 15,000 years ago -- Pt. 3. The crossing -- 5. Beringia : act 2, scene 1 : the Bering Strait 35,000 to 15,000 years ago -- 6. Alaska and the Yukon territory : act 2, scene 2 : the Northwestern reaches of the new world -- Pt. 4. The first Americans -- 7. The ice-free corridor? : interlude -- 8. On the track of the earliest settlers : act 3, scene 1 : the Americans before 11,500 years ago -- 9. The Clovis people and their forebears: act 3, scene 2 : North America at the end of the Ice Age -- Pt. 5. The great diversity -- 10. The bison hunters --