Ice Age people of North America
By: edited by Robson Bonnichsen, Karen L. Turnmire.
Contributors: Bonnichsen, Robson.; Turnmire, Karen L.; Oregon State University. Center for the Study of the First Americans.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oregon State University Press for the Center for the Study of the First Americans; Oregon State Univ Pr
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Corvallis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Subjects: Paleo-Indians -- North America; Indians of North America -- Asian influences; Glacial epoch -- North America; Paleoecology -- North America -- Pleistocene; North America -- Antiquities
Description: "This volume provides an up-to-date summary of important new discoveries from Northeast Asia and North America that are changing perceptions about the origin of the First Americans. Even though the peopling of the Americas has been the focus of scientific investigations for more than half a century, there is still no definitive evidence that will allow specialists to say when the First Americans initially arrived or who they were.

However, this in no way diminishes the significance of the many new contributions being made in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the peopling of the Americas; title: Ice Age environments of northern Eurasia with special reference to the Beringian Margin of Siberia; title: Impact of ice-related plant nutrients on glacial environments; title: Periglacial ecology, large mammals, and their significance to human biology; title: Pleistocene peoples of Japan and the peopling of the Americas; title: The colonization of western Beringia : technology, ecology, and adaptations; title: Late Pleistocene peopling of Alaska; title: Bluefish caves and Old Crow Basin : a new rapport; title: Searching for the earliest Canadians : wide corridors, narrow doorways, small windows; title: Prehistory of the Great Basin/Snake River plain to about 8,500 years ago; title: The late Pleistocene prehistory of the northwestern plains, the adjacent mountains, and intermontane basins; title: Paleoindian archaeology and late Pleistocene environments in the plains and southwestern United States; title: The Burnham site and Pleistocene human occupations of the southern plains of the United States; title: Pleistocene peoples of midcontinental North America; title: Radiocarbon chronology of northeastern Paleo-American sites : discriminating natural and human burn features; title: No vestige of a beginning nor prospect for an end : two decades of debate on Meadowcroft Rockshelter; title: The early Holocene occupation of the southeastern United States : a geoarchaeological summary; title: The inhabitants of Mexico during the upper Pleistocene; title: Breaking the impasse on the peopling of the Americas.