num_pages: 640
description: Bonesthe remains of ancient New World natives now lying in museums and university laboratories across the Americasare at the center of the scientific and cultural battles described in this provocative book. These bones award-winning investigative journalist Elaine Dewar asserts challenge the accepted theory that the first Americans descend from a Mongoloid people who migrated across the Bering land bridge to Alaska at the end of the Ice Age 11000 years ago. With Native American activists white supremacists DNA experts and physical anthropologistsall vying for control of ancient bones like those of the Caucasoid Kennewick ManDewar explores the politics of archaeology history law native spirituality and race relations at work in this scientific battlefield. She reports too on the contention among the experts over alternative theories that suggest the New World may have been populated as early as 60000 years ago perhaps by Polynesian voyagers who sailed to South America. Bound to shake archaeologists out of their complacency.Canadian Geographic Provocative ... likely to rattle the old bones of orthodoxy.Calgary Herald
language: English
title: Bones: Discovering the First Americans
publisher: Carroll & Graf