The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis EraThe Early Settlement of North America is an examination of the first recognisable culture in the New World: the Clovis complex. Gary Haynes begins his analysis with a discussion of the archaeology of Clovis fluted points in North America and a review of the history of the research on the topic. He presents and evaluates all the evidence that is now available on the artefacts, the human populations of the time, and the environment, and he examines the adaptation of the early human settlers in North America to the simultaneous disappearance of the mammoths and mastodonts. Haynes offers a compelling re-appraisal of our current state of knowledge about the peopling of this continent and provides a significant new contribution to the debate with his own integrated theory of Clovis, which incorporates vital new biological, ecological, behavioural and archaeological data. |
Contents
Fluted points and the peopling of the Americas | 1 |
What is Clovis? The archeological record | 38 |
Clovis archeological culture | 109 |
The Old and New World patterns compared | 159 |
Figures in the landscape foraging in the Clovis era | 170 |
Colonizing foragers | 239 |
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