This volume provides an up-to-date summary of important new 
discoveries from Northeast Asia and North America that are changing 
perceptions about the origin of the First Americans. Even though the 
peopling of the Americas has been the focus of scientific 
investigations for more than half a century, there is still no definitive
evidence that will allow specialists to say when the First Americans 
initially arrived or who they were.

    The nineteen papers collected here provide regional 
archaeological syntheses and address such topics as ice marginal 
dynamics, the impact of plant nutrients in glacial margins, and 
periglacial ecology of large mammals. The concluding chapter 
discusses conceptual frameworks used to explain the peopling of 
the Americas.

    This volume provides an up-to-date summary of important 
new discoveries earlier than ten thousand years old from Northeast 
Asia and North America that are changing our perceptions about the 
origin of the First Americans. It offers a detailed compendium of 
late-Pleistocene Paleoamerican archaeological records that can 
serve as a foundation of existing knowledge in this field and for 
creating the next generation of models that seek to explain the 
peopling of the Americas.

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ROBSON BONNICHSEN is CSFA director and general editor.


Distributed in association with the Center for the Study of the 
First Americans