Ancient America
Author | : Jonathan Norton Leonard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jonathan Norton Leonard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles C. Mann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9781862076174 |
The first general and comprehensive history of all of Native America
Author | : David Allen Deal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Albuquerque Region (N.M.) |
ISBN | : |
Errata slip inserted. Bibliography: p. 135-136.
Author | : Dennis J. Stanford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520275780 |
"Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.
Author | : Paul R. Cheesman |
Publisher | : Cedar Fort |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Jones |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This is a historical work on life in pre-Columbian America. It includes the theories of the origins of the indigenous peoples of America and the main developments in their political, cultural, and economic life. Although published about a century ago and presenting possibly outdated views, this work is still an interesting source of information and a great resource for historical research.
Author | : Adrienne Mayor |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2023-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691245614 |
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.
Author | : Juan Schobinger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317476654 |
Lavishly illustrated in full color and black and white, this handsome reference provides a broad survey of the rich artistic heritage of pre-Columbian North and South America. Meticulously researched by archaeologists and anthropologists, the set features dramatic close-ups of engraved rock artifacts, cave paintings, pottery, and inscribed and sculpted bones. Covering the entire two continents from present-day Canada in the far north through Central America and down to the Andes Mountains and Patagonia in the south, it is a stunning visual and written record of the great variety of artworks created by Neolithic American peoples over many millennia.
Author | : Carl Waldman |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 1438110103 |
A comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia which provides information on over 150 native tribes of North America, including prehistoric peoples.
Author | : Paul E. Minnis |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780816502240 |