Book
Bones, boats & bison: archaeology and the first colonization of western North America
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque • Published In 1999 • Pages:
By: Dixon, E. James.
Abstract
This document is an overview of western North America Paleo-Indian traditions and complexes. It provides the defining characteristics and diagnostic attributes for each, and covers important sites, topography and geology at the end of the last ice age, human remains, and theories of how people arrived on the continent. There are brief mentions of sites in South America—Monte Verde, Chile in particular—but the work largely concentrates on sites north of Mexico. Evidence indicates people were in the Americas before Clovis, given the number of sites found throughout the Americas by this time period. Nevertheless, it is acknowledged that finding the very earliest sites will be difficult because there will be few of them and they will contain sparse remains.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2017
- Region
- New World
- Sub Region
- New World
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry; 2016
- Field Date
- not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 13,500-8000 BP
- Coverage Place
- North America; South America
- Notes
- E. James Dixon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-312) and index
- LCCN
- 99041913
- LCSH
- Paleo-Indians--North America
- Paleo-Indians--West (U.S.)
- Indians of North America--Antiquities
- Indians--Origin
- North America--Antiquities
- West (U.S.)--Antiquities