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Bones, Boats & Bison : Archaeology and the First Colonization of North America
Bones, Boats & Bison : Archaeology and the First Colonization of North America
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Author(s): Dixon, E. James
ISBN No.: 9780826321381
Pages: 336
Year: 200001
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 44.68
Status: Out Of Print

This revolutionary archeological synthesis argues an alternative model of the earliest human population of North America. E. James Dixon dispels the stereotype of big-game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge and paints a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonising the New World. Applying contemporary scientific methods and drawing on new archaeological discoveries, he advances evidence indicating that humans first reached the Americas using water craft along the deglaciated Northwest Coast about 13,500 years ago, some 2,000 years before the first Clovis hunters. Dixons rigorous evaluation of the oldest North American archaeological sites and human remains offers well-reasoned hypotheses about the physical characteristics, lives, and relationships of the First Americans. His crisply written analysis of scientific exploration is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers.


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