Download First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America AudioBook Free
A lot more than 12,000 years back, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized THE UNITED STATES, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they does so has been one of the most perplexing and questionable questions in archaeology. This stunning, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who is definitely at the center of the debates, explains to the scientific story of the first People in the usa: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the difficulties of moving over the vast, unknown scenery of Ice Era THE UNITED STATES. David J. Meltzer pulls collectively the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to track the breakthroughs that contain revolutionized our understanding lately. Among many other matters, he explores disputes within the hemisphere's oldest & most questionable sites and considers the way the first People in the usa coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical statements: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of engaging discriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a convincing behind-the-scenes profile of how research is illuminating our history. The book is published by University of California Press.
