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During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America.
During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America.
"An invaluable resource. . . . It will no doubt remain the key reference book for Beringia for many years to come."--Steven Mithen, Journal of Human Evolution
"Extraordinary. The fifty-six contributors . . . represent the most prominent American and Russian researchers in the region."--Choice
"Publication of this well-illustrated compendium is a great service to early American and especially Siberian Upper Paleolithic archaeology."--Nicholas Saunders, New Scientist
"This is a great book . . . perhaps the greatest contribution to the archaeology of Beringia that has yet been published. . . . This is the kind of book to which archaeology should aspire."--Herbert D.G. Maschner, Antiquity
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AMERICAN BEGINNINGS were in the arctic of a glacial age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
palaeosol complex, priscus diminutus, white light loam, microblade cores, earthen columns, degraded quartzite, epigenetic ice wedges, organic stringers, retouched platforms, subdiscoidal flake core, obverse retouch, tci thos, lower palaeosol, transverse burins, humic sandy loam, lowermost component, upper palaeosol, ski spalls, following stratigraphic units, syngenetic ice wedges, mammoth fauna, weathered chert, burin spalls, flake burins, blade site Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Palaeolithic, Alaska Range, North America, University of Alaska, New York, Old Crow, Dry Creek, American Antiquity, Arctic Anthropology, Hidden Falls, New World, Bolshoi Elgakhchan, Quaternary Research, Spein Mountain, Aldan River, Imuruk Lake, Onion Portage, Walker Road, Academic Press, Dyuktai Cave, Teklanika West, Donnelly Ridge, Lime Hills, Moose Creek, Seward Peninsula New!
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AMERICAN BEGINNINGS were in the arctic of a glacial age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
palaeosol complex, priscus diminutus, white light loam, microblade cores, earthen columns, degraded quartzite, epigenetic ice wedges, organic stringers, retouched platforms, subdiscoidal flake core, obverse retouch, tci thos, lower palaeosol, transverse burins, humic sandy loam, lowermost component, upper palaeosol, ski spalls, following stratigraphic units, syngenetic ice wedges, mammoth fauna, weathered chert, burin spalls, flake burins, blade site Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Palaeolithic, Alaska Range, North America, University of Alaska, New York, Old Crow, Dry Creek, American Antiquity, Arctic Anthropology, Hidden Falls, New World, Bolshoi Elgakhchan, Quaternary Research, Spein Mountain, Aldan River, Imuruk Lake, Onion Portage, Walker Road, Academic Press, Dyuktai Cave, Teklanika West, Donnelly Ridge, Lime Hills, Moose Creek, Seward Peninsula New!
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- A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes by John F. Hoffecker on 5 pages
- An Ice Age Quarry-Workshop: The West Athens Hill Site Revisited by Robert E. Funk in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Archaeological Northeast by Mary Ann Levine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era by Gary Haynes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America by David S. Wilcove in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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