The first North Americans : an archaeological journey

Summary: Presents a history of North American settlement, from the first settlers over 15,000 years ago to the arrival of the Europeans in the fifthteenth century.

Record details

ISBN: 0500021201
ISBN: 9780500021200 :
Physical Description: 272 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-262) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foundations. The earliest Americans ; After Clovis ; The Far North : West to East ; Foraging the West Coast ; Before the Pueblos ; People of the Plains ; The Eastern Woodlands : nuts, native plants, and earthworks -- Apogee. The Far North : Norton, Dorset, and Thule ; The West coast : not a Garden of Eden ; The Southwest : villages and pueblos ; The Eastern Woodlands : moundbuilders ; The Mississippian : Eastern Woodlands climax ; The Northeast : Algonquians and Iroquoians.