The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World

Nina G. Jablonski

San Francisco, CA : California Academy of Sciences, 2002 - History - 331 pages

As modern humans spread around the globe, the Americas represented the final continental frontier. These first colonists were modern in appearance and technology, but who were they and when did they arrive? Traditional answers to these questions have come under increasing scrutiny in the face of new findings from artifacts, skeletal remains, genes, and languages. The peopling of the Americas has become one of archaeology's most compelling and contentious subjects, as these new lines of evidence reveal a more complex solution. In this volume, distinguished scientists from the fields of archaeology, physical anthropology, paleoecology, genetics, and linguistics assess the latest evidence from Siberia to Chile and offer provocative ideas for how, when, and where humans entered the Americas.
Distributed for the California Academy of Sciences

About the author

Nina G. Jablonskiis Irvine Chair and Curator of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. She coeditedBeyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol(1997) andThe Origin and Diversification of Language(1998), California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World; Volume 27 of Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences; Volume 27 of Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology; Volume 27 of Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences: California Academy of Sciences
• Author: Nina G. Jablonski
• Editor: Nina G. Jablonski
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Academy of Sciences, 2002
• ISBN: 0940228505, 9780940228504
• Length: 331 pages
• Subjects: History / Expeditions & Discoveries; History / General; History / Native American; History / North America; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Physical; Social Science / Archaeology; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies