First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America [1 ed.] 9780520943155, 2008035901, 9780520267992

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent t

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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America [1 ed.]
9780520943155, 2008035901, 9780520267992

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent t

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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent t

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Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson grew out of workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville s

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Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the stone age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sab

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Everyday Life in the Ice Age is the first attempt to present a truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life du

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How many of us knew the fact that from about the 16th to the 19th centuries we experienced a global cooling. The drop in

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After decades of distorted stereotyping by the media, Canada's First Peoples began to take control of their own ima

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The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and eco

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"Latinos" are the largest group among Americans of color. At 59 million, they constitute nearly a fifth of the

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European colonisation has marginalised the `first peoples' in industrialised countries such as Australia and Canada

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