Paleoamerican Odyssey.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- I. Human Dispersals in the Old World and Beringia -- 1. Occupying New Lands: Global Migrations and Cultural Diversification with Particular Reference to Australia -- 2. Human Habitation in Arctic Western Beringia Prior to the LGM -- 3. Human Technological and Behavioral Adaptation to Landscape Changes around the Last Glacial Maximum in Japan: A Focus on Hokkaido -- 4. Siberian Odyssey -- 5. Technology and Economy among the Earliest Prehistoric Foragers in Interior Eastern Beringia -- 6. Biface Traditions of Northern Alaska and Their Role in the Peopling of the Americas -- II. Dispersal Routes to the New World: Archaeology and Genetics -- 7. After Clovis-First Collapsed: Reimagining the Peopling of the Americas -- 8. Locating Pleistocene-age Submerged Archaeological Sites on the Northwest Coast: Current Status of Research and Future Directions -- 9. Vectors, Vestiges, and Valhallas-Rethinking the Corridor -- 10. Three-Stage Colonization Model for the Peopling of the Americas -- 11. The Late-Pleistocene Human Settlement of Interior North America: The Role of Physiography and Sea-Level Change -- III. Clovis-era Archaeology and Ecology -- 12. Clovis across the Continent -- 13. The Clovis Landscape -- 14. Imagining Clovis as a Cultural Revitalization Movement -- 15. Clovis Caches: Current Perspectives and Future Directions -- 16. Complexities of the Colonization Process: A View from the North American West -- 17. Clovis-era Subsistence: Regional Variability, Continental Patterning -- 18. Pleistocene Extinctions: The State of Evidence and the Structure of Debate -- IV. News from Latin America -- 19. The First Human Settlers on the Yucatan Peninsula: Evidence from Drowned Caves in the State of Quintana Roo (South Mexico).

20. The Initial Colonization of South America Eastern Lowlands: Brazilian Archaeology Contributions to Settlement of America Models -- 21. Rethinking Early Objects and Landscapes in the Southern Cone: Fishtail-Point Concentrations in the Pampas and Northern Patagonia -- 22. Entangled Knowledge: Old Trends and New Thoughts in First South American Studies -- 23. Early Human Occupation of Lagoa Santa, Eastern Central Brazil: Craniometric Variation of the Initial Settlers of South America -- V. Pre-Clovis Archaeology -- 24. Fingerprinting Flake Production and Damage Processes: Toward Identifying Human Artifact Characteristics -- 25. The Mammoth Steppe Hypothesis: The Middle Wisconsin (Oxygen Isotope Stage 3) Peopling of North America -- 26. The Late-Pleistocene Industries of Piauí, Brazil: New Data -- 27. Pre-Clovis Megafauna Butchery Sites in the Western Great Lakes Region, USA -- 28. Geochronology, Archaeological Context, and DNA at the Paisley Caves -- 29. The Ones That Still Won't Go Away: More Biased Thoughts on the Pre-Clovis Peopling of the New World -- 30. North America before Clovis: Variance in Temporal/Spatial Cultural Patterns, 27,000-13,000 cal yr BP -- 31. The First Americans: A Review of the Evidence for the Late-Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas -- General Index -- Back Cover.

Paleoamerican Odyssey providesan up-to-date view of the current state of knowledge in paleoamerican studies, the research gathered in this volume, presented by leaders in the field, focuses especially on late Pleistocene Northeast Asia, Beringia, and North and South America, as well as dispersal routes, molecular genetics, and Clovis and pre-Clovis archaeology.

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