The settlement of the Americas : a new prehistory

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Label

The settlement of the Americas : a new prehistory

Title remainder

a new prehistory

Statement of responsibility

Thomas D. Dillehay

Creator

• Dillehay, Tom D

Subject

• trueAmerica -- Antiquities
• Amérique -- Antiquités
• Nederzettingen
• Prehistoric peoples -- America
• Préhistoire -- Amérique

Language

eng

Summary

Since 1977, archaeologist Tom Dillehay has been unearthing conclusive evidence of human habitation in the Americas at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, settling a bitter debate and demolishing the standard scientific account of the settlement of the Americas. The question of how people first came to the Americas is now thrown wide open: the best guess is that they arrived from a variety of places, at many different times and by many different routes. Dillehay describes who the earliest settlers are likely to have been, where they may have landed, how they dispersed across two continents, what their technology and folkways may have been like, and how they interacted with the famous Clovis culture once thought to represent the earliest settlers

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

970.01/1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E58

LC item number

.D538 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult