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Archaeological and Paleontological Research in Lagoa Santa: The Quest for the First Americans

Edited By Pedro Totora Da-Gloria, Walter Alves Neves, Mark Hubbe

2017 | Springer International Publishing
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This groundbreaking volume presents, for the first time in English, a broad historical review of the researches carried out over 170 years in the region of Lagoa Santa, Brazil, one of the most important archaeological regions in the Americas. From ...

 
 
Nossa Origem

NOSSA ORIGEM - O povoamento das Américas: visões multidisciplinares

Edited By Hilton P. Silva, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho

2006 | Vieira & Lent
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Quem foram os primeiros seres humanos a pisar no novo mundo? De onde vieram tais indiví­duos? Quais as evidências de sua presença? E de sua diferença/semelhança com os grupos atuais? Estas e outras questões são debatidas há muito tempo, mas no ...
 
 
The Settlement of the Americas

The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory

By Thomas D. Dillehay

2000 | Basic Books
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Since 1977, archaeologist Tom Dillehay has been unearthing conclusive evidence of human habitation in the Americas at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, settling a bitter debate and demolishing the standard scientific account of the settlement o ...
 
 
The First Americans

The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

By James M. Adovasio, Jake Page

2003 | Modern Library
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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 Firs ...
 
 
Paleoamerican Odyssey

Paleoamerican Odyssey

Edited By Kelly E. Graf, Caroline V. Ketron, Michael R. Waters

2014 | Texas A&M University Press
Copy Available: Yes

As research continues on the earliest migration of modern humans into North and South America, the current state of knowledge about these first Americans is continually evolving.

Especially with recent advances in human ...
 
 
Peuplements et préhistoire en Amériques

Peuplements et préhistoire en Amériques

Edited By Denis Vialou

2011 | cths
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Longtemps voilée par les études consacrées aux civilisations précolombiennes ou aux Indiens, la connaissance de la préhistoire en Amérique bénéficie désormais et heureusement de multiples recherches de pointe. Elles sont menées par de ...
 
 
Peuplement de l'Amérique du sud

Peuplement de l'Amérique du sud: l'apport de la technologie lithique - Actes du XVI° Congress UISPP

Edited By Maria Farias, Antoine Lourdeau

2014 | @rcheo-editions
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Le peuplement du continent américain est une question qui n'a cessé de susciter l'interrogation depuis sa découverte. Aujourd'hui, les méthodes de datation permettent de confirmer une ancienneté sans cesse vieillissante, dont les indices ...
 
 
Lagoa Santa

Lagoa Santa: história das pesquisas arqueológicas e paleontológicas

Edited By Pedro Totora Da-Gloria, Walter Alves Neves, Mark Hubbe

2016 | Annablume
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A região de Lagoa Santa, localizada a cerca de 40 km de Belo Horizonte, tem sido alvo de pesquisas científicas desde o século XIX, quando o naturalista dinamarquês Peter Lund exumou milhares de ossos de animais extintos e de seres humanos antig ...
 
 
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The Hogeye Clovis Cache

By Michael R. Waters, Thomas A. Jennings

2015 | Texas A&M University Press
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Roughly thirteen thousand years ago, Clovis hunters cached more than fifty projectile points, preforms, and knives at the toe of a gentle slope near present-day Elgin, Bastrop County, in central Texas. Over the next millen ...
 
 
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Clovis Revisited: New Perspectives on Paleoindian Adaptations from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico

By Anthony T. Boldurian, John L. Cotter

2013 | University of Pennsylvania Press
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Explore the early days of Paleoindian archaeology in this engaging retrospective of Edgar B. Howard's Southwest Early Man Project, 1929-1937, cosponsored by the University Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This book conta ...

 
 
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From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

By C. Britt Bousman, Bradley J. Vierra

2012 | Texas A&M University Press
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The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography ...
 
 
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Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains

Edited By Robert H. Brunswig, Bonnie L. Pitblado

2014 | University Press of Colorado
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As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendants and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the c ...

 
 
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Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains

By Vance T. Holliday

2010 | University of Texas Press
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Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding

Edited By Ashley M. Smallwood, Thomas A. Jennings

2014 | Texas A&M University Press
Copy Available: Yes

New research and the discovery of multiple archaeological sites predating the established age of Clovis (13,000 years ago) provide evidence that the Americas were first colonized at least one thousand to two thousand years ...
 
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