Early Native Americans : : Prehistoric Demography, Economy, and Technology / / ed. by David L. Browman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA History <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ABRAMOVA, Z. A.,; ACKERMAN, ROBERT E.,; ADOVASIO, J. M.,; ARMELAGOS, GEORGE J.,; BUIKSTRA, JANE E.,; CARTER, GEORGE F.,; CASTEEL, RICHARD W.,; CLARK, DONALD W.,; DRAGOO, DON W.,; ERICKSEN, MARY F.,; FOWLER, MELVIN L.,; FRY, G. F.,; HALL, ROBERT L.,; HURLEY, WILLIAM M.,; JOHNSON, DONALD L.,; LALLO, JOHN,; MOCHANOV, JU. A.,; McFADYEN CLARK, A.,; PETERSON, DREXEL A.,; RAEMSCH, BRUCE E.,; REEVES, Β. Ο. Κ.,; ROSE, JEROME CARL,; SIMPSON, RUTH DEE,; STAGG, RONALD M.,; VERNON, WILLIAM W.,; WEST, FREDERICK HADLEIGH,
• HerausgeberIn: Browman, David L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1980
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2011
• संस्करण: Reprint 2011
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (478 p.) :; 51 plates. 5 maps.

Table of Contents

I-XIV -- SECTION ONE. Pleistocene Man in North America -- Introduction -- The Calico Mountains Site: Pleistocene Archaeology in the Mojave Desert, California -- The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World -- Wisconsin and Pre-Wisconsin Stone Industries of New York State and Related Tools from a Shop Site near Tula, Mexico -- The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts -- Fractured Cherts from Pleistocene Fossiliferous Beds at Medicine Hat, Alberta -- The California Coastal Region: Its Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climate and Function as an Ice Age Refugium -- SECTION TWO. Microblade Traditions and Migrations -- Introduction -- Early Migrations to America in the Light of a Study of the Dyuktai Paleolithic Culture in Northeast Asia -- Concerning the Cultural Contacts Between Asia and America in the Late Paleolithic -- Fluted Points at the Batza Téna Obsidian Source, Northwestern Interior Alaska -- Late Paleolithic Cultures in Alaska -- Microblades and Prehistory: Technological and Cultural Considerations for the North Pacific Coast -- SECTION THREE. Paleodemography -- Introduction -- An Ecological Interpretation of Variation in Mortality Within Three Prehistoric American Indian Populations From Dickson Mounds -- Patterns of Microscopic Bone Remodeling in Three Aboriginal American Populations -- Epigenetic Distance: A Study of Biological Variability in the Lower Illinois River Region -- A Sample of Northern North American Hunter-Gatherers and the Malthusian Thesis: An Explicitly Quantified Approach -- SECTION FOUR. Later Cultural Adaptations and Technological Studies -- Introduction -- Prehistoric Diet and Parasites in the Desert West of North America -- Prehistoric Basketry of Western North America and Mexico -- The Introduction, Use, and Technology of Fiber-Tempered Pottery in the Southeastern United States -- Coding and Cluster Analysis of Wisconsin Ceramics -- The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared -- An Interpretation of the Two-Climax Model of Illinois Prehistory -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects