The Settlement of the Americas
Subtitle: A New Prehistory
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: February 19, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780465076697
First sentence: SOMETIME AFTER THE EMERGENCE OF Homo sapiens in the Old World, the forebears of Native Americans entered the previously uninhabited New World, eventually making their way southward to the cold, barren landscape of Tierra del Fuego-one of the last places on earth reached by prehistoric humans.