America Before the European InvasionsRoutledge, 11/06/2014 - 268 من الصفحات Beginning with the immigrants from Asia, through inventions of agriculture, cities and kingdoms, American First Nations are integral to the history of the United States. They explored the continent, pioneered its waterways and mountain passes, cleared forests, irrigated deserts, and ranched its great plains. Invading Europeans justifies their conquests by denying the evidence of American Indian civilisations. Using her familiarity with the archaeological remains and remnants, Alice Kehoe builds a fascinating prehistory, highlighting the research puzzles along the way. This book presents an enthralling look at the depth and diversity of American history - before the Europeans and the deadly epidemics they brought with them decimated whole nations. |
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... Holocene, to around 8000 BCE. All known Paleoindian habitation sites seem to have been camps, generally on ridges where people could watch for game animals coming to streams or marsh edges; besides mammoths, mastodons, musk-oxen, horses ...
... Holocene times are few, with none so far definitely dated to the Pleistocene. The most complete skeleton is known as Kennewick Man, from the discovery locality on the lower Columbia River (near Richland, Washington). 4 From Kennewick ...
... Holocene, or whether they spread throughout the Americas quickly or slowly in the late Pleistocene. Language is another line of inquiry into population histories. Linguists agree that the indigenous languages of the Americas are ...
... Holocene era, manufacturing different styles of spearpoints according to region and changing over time, to about 7000 BCE. Because logically Clovis people could often have carried their distinctive Clovis blades away with them to the ...
... Holocene on their island protected by ocean currents. Holocene dwarf mammoths on islands and serviceable but undistinguished stone tools with Pleistocene mammoths make archaeologists chary of simple scenarios picturing Clovis hunters ...
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Nuclear America | |
Early Woodland 1000100 | |
Middle Woodland 100 BCAD 400 | |
Alaska | |
The Interior West | |
The American Southwest | |
The Mississippian Period AD 9501600 | |
Late Woodland to AD 1600 | |
the United States 1600 | |
Issues and Puzzles | |
Index | |
The West Coast | |