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“david j meltzer”

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  • The Great Paleolithic War

    How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past

    by David J. Meltzer ...
    Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological strata seemed exactly analogous between America and Europe, which would lead one to believe that North American humanity ought to be as old as the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Peoples in a New World

    Populating Ice Age America

    by David J. Meltzer ...
    Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found themselves in a world rich in plants and animals, but also a world still shivering itself out of the coldest depths of the Ice Age. The movement of those first Americans was one of the greatest journeys undertaken by ancient peoples. In this book, David Meltzer explores the world ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Mountaineer Site

    A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies

    by Brian N. Andrews, David J. Meltzer, Mark Stiger ...
    The Mountaineer Site presents over a decade’s worth of archaeological research conducted at Mountaineer, a Paleoindian campsite in Colorado’s Upper Gunnison Basin. Mountaineer is one of the very few extensively excavated, long-term Folsom occupations with evidence of built structures. The site provides a rich record of stone tool manufacture and use, as well as architectural features, and offers ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • First Peoples in a New World

    Colonizing Ice Age America

    by David J. Meltzer ...
    More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

    by Edwin H. Davis, Ephraim G. Squier ...
    Originally published in 1848 as the first major work in the nascent discipline as well as the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley remains today not only a key document in the history of American archaeology but also the primary source of information on hundreds of mounds and earthworks in the eastern United States, most of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD