First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America by David J. Meltzer (En

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE First Peoples in a New World by David J. Meltzer Over 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America. This title tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemispheres oldest and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past. Flap "Meltzers compelling account of the data and the debates takes readers behind the scenes of the often contentious arguments that have redirected the scientific pursuit of the first Americans."--Tom D. Dillehay, author of The Settlement of the Americas "In remarkably comprehensive and lucid fashion, Meltzer synthesizes the complex and commonly conflicting evidence for the earliest human presence in the Americas and provides an honestly told lesson about the workings of scientific thought."--David Hurst Thomas, author of Skull Wars "A natural storyteller, David Meltzer gives us a vivid picture of both the colonizing bands of humans who moved into the Americas and the researchers who followed their footsteps from Alaska to Chile. This is an insiders account, told with a keen eye and sense of humor, as if Meltzer were there when discoveries were made and when disputes were aired--as, indeed, he often was."--Ann Gibbons, author of The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestors "The settling of the Americas has been a first-rate scientific puzzle since Columbus stumbled across the peoples of the Caribbean. David Meltzer is its ideal chronicler: a major participant in the research that is unlocking the mystery and a fine writer with a wry humor. Thank goodness there arent too many scientists like him--science journalists like me would be out of business."--Charles C. Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Author Biography David J. Meltzer is Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill (UC Press) and Search for the First Americans, among other books. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Overture On Dates and Dating 2. The Landscape of Colonization: Glaciers, Climates, and Environments of Ice Age North America The Younger Dryas: It Came from Outer Space? 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians A Mammoth Fraud in Science 4. The Pre-Clovis Controversy and Its Resolution A Visit to Monte Verde 5. Non-archaeological Answers to Archaeological Questions And Then There Was Kennewick 6. American Origins: The Search for Consensus Looking for Clovis in All the Wrong Places 7. What Do You Do When No Ones Been There Before? 8. Clovis Adaptations and Pleistocene Extinctions Is Overkill Dead? 9. Settling In: Late Paleoindians and the Waning Ice Age Back to Folsom 10. When Past and Present Collide Further Reading Notes References Index Plates Review "A must read for anyone interested in what is undeniable the greatest debate in American archaeology... Essential." Choice "The book is ... sharply written and narratively compelling." -- Mark Dailey Journal Of World History "A masterful exploration and encapsulation of the last two centuries of American archaeology and the first five millennia of the earliest Americans." American Scientist "Informative and entertaining." -- E. James Dixon Antiquity "A good review of topics and controversies surrounding the peopling of North America." -- Susan C. Vehik Great Plains Research "[Meltzer] has written the most in-depth synthesis of the history of the debate about the early peopling of North America yet published." -- Juliet E. Morrow Journal Of Iowa Archeological Society "Often lively and occasionally bemused, Meltzers study-part detective story and part archeological research-is stimulating and sometimes tantalizingly controversial." Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2) Review Quote "The book is . . . sharply written and narratively compelling." Details ISBN0520267990 Author David J. Meltzer Short Title 1ST PEOPLES IN A NEW WORLD Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520267990 ISBN-13 9780520267992 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Colonizing Ice Age America Country of Publication United States DEWEY 970.01 Place of Publication Berkerley Illustrations 16 color illustrations, 64 b-w illustrations, 11 tables UK Release Date 2010-11-30 Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-11-30 AU Release Date 2010-11-30 NZ Release Date 2010-11-30 US Release Date 2010-11-30 Pages 464 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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