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The first Americans : race, evolution, and the origin of Native Americans  Cover Image Book Book

The first Americans : race, evolution, and the origin of Native Americans / Joseph F. Powell.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0521823501
  • ISBN: 0521530350 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: viii, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue : the Kennewick controversy -- 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 -- 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 -- 9. Racial models of Native American origins -- 10. Evolutionary models of Native American origins -- 11. The first Americans : Native American origins.
Subject: Paleo-Indians > America > Origin.
Paleo-Indians > America > Migrations.
Human evolution > America.
Human remains (Archaeology) > America.
Kennewick Man.
America > Antiquities.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library E 61 P693 2005 (Text) 26040002741086 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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