Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present
Subtitle: An Ecological Perspective
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: September 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780813336107
Subjects: American history; Anthropology; Applied ecology; Indigenous peoples; Social Science; Ethnology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; South America; Social life and customs; Anthropology - General; Latin America - South America; History-Latin America - South America; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Antiquities; Indians of South America
First sentence: SOMETIME FIFTEEN TO twenty thousand years ago, the first human settlers of the Americas crossed the land bridge between the Old and New Worlds and, through countless generations, eventually made their way south across the Isthmus of Panama to the continent of South America.