Entering America northeast Asia and Beringia before the last glacial maximum

Summary: "The archaeological and paleoecological aspects of a post-glacial entry into the Americas have been well studied, but there is little information available on the possibility of a pre-glacial entry. Entering America seeks to fill that void by providing the most up-to-date information on the nature of environmental and cultural conditions in northeast Asia and Beringia (the Bering land bridge) immediately prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. Because the peopling of the New World is a question of international archaeological interest, this volume will be of interest to specialists and nonspecialists alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0874807867 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781607817857 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1607817853 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780874807868
ISBN: 9781607810575
ISBN: 1607810573
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (vi, 486 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-470) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Colonization of the Americas before the Last Glacial Maximum: Issues and Problems / David B. Madsen -- Environmental Conditions in Northeast Asia and Northwestern North America -- Paleoenvironmental Conditions in Western Beringia before and during the Last Glacial Maximum / Julie Brigham-Grette, Anatoly V. Lozhkin, Patricia M. Anderson, Olga Y. Glushkova -- Environments of Northwestern North America before the Last Glacial Maximum / John J. Clague, Rolf W. Mathewes, Thomas A. Ager -- The Implications of American Archaeology for a Pre- or Post-late Glacial Maximum Occupation of the New World -- Late Wisconsin Environments and Archaeological Visibility on the Northern Northwest Coast / Daryl W. Fedje, Quentin Mackie, E. James Dixon, Timothy H. Heaton -- Pre-Clovis Sites and Their Implications for Human Occupation before the Last Glacial Maximum / J.M. Adovasio, David R. Pedler -- The Nature of Clovis Blades and Blade Cores / Michael B. Collins, Jon C. Lohse -- Human Genetics and Forager Mobility -- Molecular Genetic Diversity in Siberians and Native Americans Suggests an Early Colonization of the New World / Theodore G. Schurr -- Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion in North Asia and the New World / Robert L. Bettinger, David A. Young -- The Archaeology of Northeast Asia -- Time-Space Dynamics in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Northeast Asia / P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Kristopher W. Kerry, Andrei I. Krivoshapkin, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.