The Settlement Of The American Continents

Author : C. Michael Barton,Geoffrey A. Clark,David R. Yesner,Georges A. Pearson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Madison Grant
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:4064066060558

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The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America by Madison Grant Pdf

The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book deals with the settlement of American continent throughout the centuries, and with migrations of different tribes and racial groups to and from America.

Author : Madison Grant
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:4064066396244

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The Conquest of the American Continent by Madison Grant Pdf

The Conquest of the American Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book deals with the settlement of American continent throughout the centuries, and with migrations of different tribes and racial groups to and from America.

Author : Robert D. Mitchell,Paul A. Groves
Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011890723

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North America by Robert D. Mitchell,Paul A. Groves Pdf

Author : Paulette F. C. Steeves
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195389142

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American History by Paul S. Boyer Pdf

This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.

Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101544457

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American Nations by Colin Woodard Pdf

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an “American” or “Canadian” culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, and the rivalries and alliances between its component nations, which conform to neither state nor international boundaries. He illustrates and explains why “American” values vary sharply from one region to another. Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how intranational differences have played a pivotal role at every point in the continent's history, from the American Revolution and the Civil War to the tumultuous sixties and the "blue county/red county" maps of recent presidential elections. American Nations is a revolutionary and revelatory take on America's myriad identities and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and are molding our future.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000012952243

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Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : Tom D. Dillehay
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761321500

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Welcome to North America! by April Pulley Sayre Pdf

Introduces the continent of North America, looking at its geography, plant and animal life, weather, and settlement by humans.

Author : Jennifer Raff
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781538749708

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Origin by Jennifer Raff Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution. 20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep fascination and controversy. No written records—and scant archaeological evidence—exist to tell us what happened or how it took place. Many different models have been proposed to explain how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the thousands of years that followed. A study of both past and present, ORIGIN explores how genetics is currently being used to construct narratives that profoundly impact Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It serves as a primer for anyone interested in how genetics has become entangled with identity in the way that society addresses the question "Who is indigenous?"

Author : Hugh Brogan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141937458

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The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan Pdf

This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - both the good and the bad. He provides a masterly synthesis of all the latest research illustrating America's rapid growth from humble beginnings to global dominance.

Author : David Moody Hopkins,International Association for Quaternary Research
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Science
ISBN : 0804702721

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The Bering Land Bridge by David Moody Hopkins,International Association for Quaternary Research Pdf

Data of geology, oceanography, paleontology, plant geography, and anthropology focus on problems and lessons of Beringia. Includes papers presented at Symposium held at VII Congress of International Association for Quaternary Research, Boulder, Colorado, 1965.

Author : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096527197

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WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336). by CAITLIN. FINLAYSON Pdf

Author : Anthony Depalma
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 000639423X

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Here by Anthony Depalma Pdf

The European conquerors who created New France, New Spain,and New England, thus sowing the seeds of Canada, Mexico, and the United States,shared the old world they all came from. Yet starting at roughly the same timein broadly the same place the three countries that grew up on the North Americancontinent created their own very different versions of a new world. For half amillennium, these three universes existed side by side, sometimes warring witheach other, often times at peace, yet separated by boundaries and prejudices farstronger than any customs stations or border posts could ever be. Then, almostexactly 500 years after Columbus stumbled into the new world, the harsh realityof a rapidly changing economic order, combined with the ineluctable tug of ourown past, began to profoundly transform the relationship among the threeAmerican nations. As a New York Times correspondent in Mexico and Canadaduring the last turbulent decade—the first ever to report from both ends ofAmerica—Anthony DePalma had a unique perspective from which to observe and todefine the momentous dawning of this uncertain new season in American history.In HERE: A Biography of the New American Continent he combinesvivid, incisive reporting on intracontinental politics from the start of theNorth American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 through the dramatic triple nationalelections in 2000, with illuminating re-examinations of key historical eventsand fascinating stories of individuals to create a completely original,passionately rendered portrait of the new world in the new millennium. How didour three nations—ll nations of immigrants, sharing borders and intertwinedhistories—develop such different world views and senses of ourselves? How dowe—accurately and inaccurately—interpret our shared history, and perceiveeach other? Who are we now, separately and as a continent, and where are wegoing? Why is it that most Americans still tend to view the United States as anisland, and rarely consider that what happens there, means anything Here? DePalma considers these questions both as a journalist andthrough the lens of his own immigrant family’s experiences. "Thisbook," he says, "represents one American’s journey across NorthAmerica, one American’s pursuit of a northern passage connecting our past witha future taking shape before our eyes. It is the chronicle of the first years ofa new American continent, a biography of a place with special meaning for all400 million Americans who live in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Thisbook is also, in a sense, a biography of a single American—the grandson ofimmigrants who sought out America, son of a longshoreman who carried a piece ofAmerica on his back, husband to an immigrant who also came to look for America,and father to children who know foreign anthems as well as their own and whosomeday will want to know which America is theirs."