America S First Settlements

Author : Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520949676

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Across Atlantic Ice by Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley Pdf

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. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.

Author : C. Michael Barton,Geoffrey A. Clark,David R. Yesner,Georges A. Pearson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816532827

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The Settlement of the American Continents by C. Michael Barton,Geoffrey A. Clark,David R. Yesner,Georges A. Pearson Pdf

When many scholars are asked about early human settlement in the Americas, they might point to a handful of archaeological sites as evidence. Yet the process was not a simple one, and today there is no consistent argument favoring a particular scenario for the peopling of the New World. This book approaches the human settlement of the Americas from a biogeographical perspective in order to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of this unique event. It considers many of the questions that continue to surround the peopling of the Western Hemisphere, focusing not on sites, dates, and artifacts but rather on theories and models that attempt to explain how the colonization occurred. Unlike other studies, this book draws on a wide range of disciplines—archaeology, human genetics and osteology, linguistics, ethnology, and ecology—to present the big picture of this migration. Its wide-ranging content considers who the Pleistocene settlers were and where they came from, their likely routes of migration, and the ecological role of these pioneers and the consequences of colonization. Comprehensive in both geographic and topical coverage, the contributions include an explanation of how the first inhabitants could have spread across North America within several centuries, the most comprehensive review of new mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome data relating to the colonization, and a critique of recent linguistic theories. Although the authors lean toward a conservative rather than an extreme chronology, this volume goes beyond the simplistic emphasis on dating that has dominated the debate so far to a concern with late Pleistocene forager adaptations and how foragers may have coped with a wide range of environmental and ecological factors. It offers researchers in this exciting field the most complete summary of current knowledge and provides non-specialists and general readers with new answers to the questions surrounding the origins of the first Americans.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618663916

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Who was First? by Russell Freedman Pdf

Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.

Author : Linda Thompson
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781643698250

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America's First Settlements by Linda Thompson Pdf

Young learners will be introduced to an important stage in history when they read America's First Settlements. This book is filled with photographs, interesting facts, discussion questions, and more, to effectively engage young learners in such a significant re-telling of events. Each 48-page title in The History Of America Collection delves into complex narratives in history. Concise, but comprehensive, these titles are very approachable for transitioning readers and learners beginning to recognize detail orientation and how to analyze text. Each book in this series features photographs, timelines, discussion questions, and more, to fully engage transitioning readers. The History Of America Collection engages students in major historical events with fascinating facts, photographs, and more. Readers are able to gauge their own understanding with before-reading questions that help build background knowledge and end-of-book comprehension and extension activities.

Author : Department of English Language and Literature Linda Thompson,Linda Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : North America
ISBN : 1621698343

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America's First Settlements by Department of English Language and Literature Linda Thompson,Linda Thompson Pdf

Photographs and illustrations describe America's first settlements.

Author : David K. O'Rourke
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0820468142

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How America's First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery by David K. O'Rourke Pdf

From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America's founding householders - English and Spanish alike - took the limited European practice of coerced labor and, over the course of two hundred years, transformed it into a depersonalized and brutal chattel slavery unlike anything that had existed in Europe. What system of language and logic, what visions of religious and civil society, allowed men who saw themselves both as Christians and cultured humanists to dehumanize and enslave people whose cultures and accomplishments were evident to nearly all? In this book we observe the progressive development of a mindset that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as others who did not merit human status.

Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020814342

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North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements by David B. Quinn Pdf

Details the activities of the Europeans who discovered, explored, and attempted to settle North America.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0635063239

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Jamestown by Carole Marsh Pdf

Jamestown, America's first permanent English settlement, was established 400 years ago. Neither the Old World, not the New World (America!) was ever the same again! ... This book includes: Virginia company, Captain John Smith, Godspeed, Discovery and the Susan Constant, John Rolfe, James Fort, Christopher Newport, Lord De La Warr, Starving time, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan, Historic Jametown today.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780635081445

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Jamestown: America's First Permanent English Settlement by Carole Marsh Pdf

The 22-book American Milestone series is featured as "Retailers Recommended Fabulous Products" in the August 2012 edition of Educational Dealer magazine. In May of 1607, 104 men and boys came to what would one day be known as America. They were ill-suited for the task. Learn about the hardships they faced and how they (finally) adapted to their new surroundings to establish a foothold in the New World. This book includes: • The Virginia Company • Captain John Smith • Godspeed, Discovery, and Susan Constant • John Rolfe • James Fort • Christopher Newport • Lord De La Warr • The Starving Time • Pocahontas • Chief Powhatan • Historic Jamestowne today • and lots more! This book helps kids understand this momentous event and its impact on America's future. Reproducible activities make it fun for kids to learn about the historic people, places, and fact that are part of American History. A partial list of the Table of Contents include: A Timeline of Events The First Settlements Let's Live Right Here Master and Commander A Man with a Plan! This Land is Our Land! Daily Life as a Powhatan Welcome to James Fort! What Shall I Wear? The Dread of Disease How Does Tobacco Grow? And Much More!

Author : Tom D. Dillehay
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015236887

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The Settlement Of The Americas A New Prehistory by Tom D. Dillehay Pdf

"That new view, says Dillehay, will come mainly from South America - from South American sites and from freedom from the North American dogma that kept the Clovis theory dominant for so many years.

Author : Paulette F. C. Steeves
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496225368

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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F. C. Steeves Pdf

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites (10,200 years ago) but for more than 60,000 years, and likely more than 100,000 years. Steeves discusses the political history of American anthropology to focus on why pre-Clovis sites have been dismissed by the field for nearly a century. She explores supporting evidence from genetics and linguistic anthropology regarding First Peoples and time frames of early migrations. Additionally, she highlights the work and struggles faced by a small yet vibrant group of American and European archaeologists who have excavated and reported on numerous pre-Clovis archaeology sites. In this first book on Paleolithic archaeology of the Americas written from an Indigenous perspective, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere includes Indigenous oral traditions, archaeological evidence, and a critical and decolonizing discussion of the development of archaeology in the Americas.

Author : Salma Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433012110718

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History of the United States, from Their First Settlement in Colonies, to the Close of the War with Great Britain in 1815 by Salma Hale Pdf

Author : Craig Yirush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139496049

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Settlers, Liberty, and Empire by Craig Yirush Pdf

Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm, claim indigenous territory and establish new governments by consent, this radical set of ideas culminated in revolution and republicanism. But unlike most scholarship on early American political theory, Craig Yirush does not focus solely on the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Instead, he examines how the political ideas of settler elites in British North America emerged in the often-forgotten years between the Glorious Revolution in America and the American Revolution against Britain. By taking seriously an imperial world characterized by constitutional uncertainty, geo-political rivalry and the ongoing presence of powerful Native American peoples, Yirush provides a long-term explanation for the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101075814

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American Colonies by Alan Taylor Pdf

A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss. "Formidable . . . provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." -The New York Times Book Review

Author : P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998436

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U.S. History by P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund Pdf

Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.