People and Culture in Ice Age Americas: New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archaeology [Hardcover]

This edited volume, which emerged from a symposium organized at the 2014 SAA meeting in Austin, Texas, covers recent Paleoamerican research and site excavations from Patagonia to Canada. Contributors discuss the peopling of the Americas, early American assemblages, lifeways, and regional differences. Many scholars present current data previously unavailable in English. Chapters are organized south to north in an attempt to shake the usual north-centric focus of Pleistocene–Early Holocene archaeological studies and to bring to the forefront the many fascinating discoveries being made in southern latitudes. The diversity of approaches over a large geographic expanse generates discussion that prompts a re-evaluation of predominant paradigms about how the expansion ofHomo sapiensin the Western Hemisphere took place. Those who work in Paleoamerican studies will embrace this book for its new data and for its comparative look at the Americas.

Surveys recent Paleoindian research within the Americas, drawing attention to archaeological work in Latin America
 

“An up-to-date and thought-provoking reader on the peopling of Americas, with detailed contributions from some of the foremost scholars on the subject.… People and Culture in Ice Age Americasis an excellent book. In addition to synthesizing knowledge about specific areas and topics, it shows through numerous examples how we can effectively document the stories of the earliest Americans.”—American Antiquity

“The authors contributing to this volume use a variety of research methods to draw conclusions backed by multiple lines of evidence, in an earnest attempt to re-evaluate our understanding of the early archaeological record across multiple geographic areas. In the end, this robust effort perfectly represents the ideal of what a multidisciplinary field like archaeology should be. For everyone interelCí