Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America Hardcover – April 1, 2007

by Renee B. Walker (Editor), Boyce N. Driskell (Editor)

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These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in the New World employed and that they also relied on foraging and fishing.

Written in an accessible, engaging style, these essays examine how migratory waterfowl routes may represent one impetus for human migration into the Americas, analyze settlement and subsistence in the major regions of the United States, and reinvestigate mammoth and bison bone beds in the western Plains and the Rocky Mountains to illuminate the unique nature of Paleoindian hunting in that region. The first study of Paleoindian subsistence on a continental scale, this collection posits regional models of subsistence and mobility that take into account the constraints and opportunities for resource exploitation within each region: Research on the Gault site in Texas reveals new subsistence strategies there, while data from the Shawnee-Minisink site in Pennsylvania connects seed collecting with fishing in that region, and plant remains from Dust Cave in Alabama provide important information about subsistence.

With research ranging from fauna and lithic data from Paleoindian campsites in Florida that illuminate subsistence technologies and late megamammals to an analysis of plant remains from the eastern United States that results in a revised scheme of environmental changes, this volume serves as an important sourcebook and guide to the latest research on the first humans in North America.

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"An important addition to the literature concerning Paleoindian subsistence and settlement patterns."—Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology

“Should be required reading for all those interested in Paleoindian adaptations.”—William R. Hildebrandt, Journal of Field Archaeology

Published On: 2008-07-07

About the Author

Renee B. Walker is an assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta. Boyce N. Driskell is the director of the Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Tennessee.

Contributors: Michael B. Collins, Richard J. Dent, James S. Dunbar, Stuart J. Fiedel, Kandace D. Hollenbach, Marcel Kornfeld, Steven Kuehn, Lucinda McWeeney, Asa Randall, Pamela K. Vojnovski, and David Yesner.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Nebraska Press (April 1, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803248024
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803248021
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches

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Wonderful book!

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This book contains 12 different chapters, by different authors, each a specialist in their field. I am very interested in the Gault site of Texas and the chapter written by Michael Collins, Phd on the Gault site, is worth the price of the entire book to me! He covers many previously unanswered questions about Clovis, many good black and white photos of Gault -clovis artifacts, and microscopic photos of use-wear on edges of tools. My first good look at the Gault site in print, and I am savoring evern second of it. Collins is a remarkable man, his use of the language is clear, concise and understandable by the average man on the street. I love this book!!