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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

    $38.99 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

    $46.99 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

    $13.99 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

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  • The Eternal Frontier

    An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A comprehensive history of the continent, "full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology" ( The Washington Post Book World).Here, "the rock star of modern science" tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs ... Read more

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  • The First Americans

    In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

    by James Adovasio, Jake Page ...
    J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has ... Read more

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  • Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains

    Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains

    by Trevor R. Peck ...
    Light from Ancient Campfires is the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric archaeological record of the Northern Plains First Nations. In this important examination of the region's earliest inhabitants, author Trevor R. Peck reviews the many changes of interpretation that have occurred in relevant literature published during the last two decades. Beginning with ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A Sea without Fish

    Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region

    by David L. Meyer, Richard Arnold Davis, Steven M. Holland ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A "superbly written, richly illustrated" guide to the animals who lived 450 million years ago—in the fossil-rich area where Cincinnati, Ohio now stands ( Rocks & Minerals).The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 ... Read more

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  • Flintknapping

    Making and Understanding Stone Tools

    by John C. Whittaker ...
    Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. John C. Whitaker's bestselling guide is a detailed handbook on flintknapping, written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them.Flintknapping contains detailed, practical information on making stone tools. Whittaker ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • What Should a Clever Moose Eat?

    Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods

    by John Pastor ...
    How long should a leaf live? When should blueberries ripen? And what should a clever moose eat? Questions like these may seem simple or downright strange—yet they form the backbone of natural history, a discipline that fostered some of our most important scientific theories, from natural selection to glaciation. Through careful, patient observations of the organisms that live in an area, their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Darwin's Sacred Cause

    How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

    by Adrian Desmond, James Moore ...
    An "arresting" and deeply personal portrait that "confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on" ( The New York Times Book Review).It's difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, produce one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Drawing ... Read more

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