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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America

Meltzer, David J.·2009
DOI 10.1525/9780520943155
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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 hemisphere's 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.

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  • The Clovis complex developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology.

    “Nearly fifty years of archaeological research point to the Clovis complex as having developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology3.”

    From The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana (2014) · cites this paper as [3]

  • The finding of D4h3a inland in the oldest skeleton from the Americas mtDNA typed to date questions the interpretation that current distribution of D4h3a indicates an early coastal migration route.

    “Our findings of this mtDNA haplogroup inland in the oldest skeleton from the Americas mtDNA typed to date question such interpretation and underscores that current distributions of genetic markers are not necessarily indicative of the movement or distribution of peoples in the past3.”

    From The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana (2014) · cites this paper as [3]

  • The Anzick-1 data are consistent with a human occupation of the Americas a few thousand years before Clovis.

    “it is consistent with a human occupation of the Americas a few thousand years before Clovis,2,3,28”

    From The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana (2014) · cites this paper as [3]

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Authors
Meltzer, D. J.
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2009-05-27
DOI
10.1525/9780520943155
Cited by
251
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