Paleoamerican origins : beyond Clovis / edited by Robson Bonnichsen ... [et al.]. - College Station, TX : Center for the Study of the First Americans : Distributed by the Texas A & M University Press, c2005. - ix, 368 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.

"A peopling of the Americas publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to Paleoamerican origins / Robson Bonnichsen -- Changing perceptions of Paleoamerican prehistory / Robson Bonnichsen and Bradley T. Lepper -- A long view of deep time at Meadowcroft Rockshelter / J. M. Adovasio and D. R. Pedler -- Pleistocene human occupation of the southeastern United States: research directions for the early 21st century / David G. Anderson -- Comparing Clovis and Western European Upper Paleolithic: what are the rules of evidence? / Michael B. Collins -- More bits and pieces: a new look at Lahontan chronology and human occupation / Amy J. Denise and Wm. Jerry Jerrems -- The Ryan/Harley site 8Je1004: a Suwannee point site in the Wacissa river, north Florida / James S. Dunbar -- Rapid Clovis colonization of the Americas: chronological evidence and archaeological analogues / Stuart J. Fiedel -- Evidence of Pre-Clovis sites in the Eastern United States / Alber C. Goodyear -- Clovis, Pre-Clovis, climate change, and extinction / C. Vance Haynes, Jr. -- Envisioning water transport technology in late-Pleistocene America / Margaret A. Jodry -- Late-Wisconsinian mammoth procurement in the North American grasslands / Eileen Johnson -- Late-glacial ice-marginal adaptation in southeastern Wisconsin / David F. Overstreet -- The ignored continent: South America in models of earliest American prehistory / Ruth Gruhn -- Hunting and butchering events at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition in Piedra Museo: an example of adaptation strategies of the first colonizers of Patagonia / Laura Miotti and Monica Salemme -- Tracking genes through time and space: changing perspectives on New World origins / Theodore G. Schurr -- Mitochondrial DNA Halogroups of Paleoamericans in North America / David Glenn Smith -- Appearance of the "Mongoloid skeletal trait complex" in the northwestern Great Plains: migration, selection, or both? / George W. Gill -- Circumpacific populations and the peopling of the New World: evidence from cranial morphometrics / Richard L. Jantz and Douglas W. Owsley -- Patterns of craniometric variation and geographical distribution in North America: a historical comparison / A. Russell Nelson -- Nearsightedness in Paleoamerican research: historical perspective and contemporary analysis / Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz -- Where are we going? public policy and science / Alan L. Schneider and Robson Bonnichsen -- Paleoamerican origins: models, evidence, and future directions / Dennis Stanford

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Paleo-Indians Clovis culture Paleoecology North America

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