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The First Americans: a review of the evidence for the Late-Pleistocene peopling of the Americas
paleoamerican odyssey • College Station • Published In 2014 • Pages: 543-562
By: Waters, Michael R., Stafford, Thomas Wier.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors review the evidence for pre-Clovis sites in the Americas for an understanding of the culture of the first peoples in the New World. They discuss the importance of accurate dating, the genetic data that supports an early arrival, and the difficult but essential search for (and ability to recognize) older sites.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Fauna
- Genetics
- External migration
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Paleo-Indian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- New World
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- New World
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geoarchaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 15,000-10,670 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North America; South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael R. Waters and Thomas Wier Stafford, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-562)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2014006259
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians