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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian M Fagan |
| ISBN: | 9780500021200 : 0500021201 |
| OCLC Number: | 668193828 |
| Description: | 272 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Foundations. The earliest Americans ; After Clovis ; The Far North : West to East ; Foraging the West Coast ; Before the Pueblos ; People of the Plains ; The Eastern Woodlands : nuts, native plants, and earthworks -- Apogee. The Far North : Norton, Dorset, and Thule ; The West coast : not a Garden of Eden ; The Southwest : villages and pueblos ; The Eastern Woodlands : moundbuilders ; The Mississippian : Eastern Woodlands climax ; The Northeast : Algonquians and Iroquoians. |
| Series Title: | Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson) |
| Responsibility: | Brian Fagan. |
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Abstract:
Provides a history of North America from first settlement around 15,000 years ago to the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century AD. This title presents a story that is based mainly on archaeology, but also on research in many scientific disciplines, from biology and climatology to ethnohistory and high-tech chemistry and physics.
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