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Preface to the Second Edition

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Index

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Preface to the First Edition

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Notes

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What Language, Skeletal Anatomy, and Genetics Reveal (or Not) of the Population History of the Americas

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What Do You Do When No One’s Been There Before?

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Glaciers, Climates and Environments of Ice Age North America

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Who, from Where, When, and How?

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Ascertaining Archaeological Evidence of Antiquity

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Settling in

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When Past and Present Collide

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Bibliography

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Overture

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