| American Beginnings: The Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia Contributor(s): West, Frederick Hadleigh (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0226894002 ISBN-13: 9780226894003 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $67.32 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 970 |
| Physical Information: 1.43" H x 8.47" W x 10.96" (3.68 lbs) 600 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 |