The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gary Haynes
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:360
Dimensions(mm): Height 244,Width 170
Category/GenreArchaeology by period and region
ISBN/Barcode 9780521524636
ClassificationsDewey:970.01
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 25 Tables, unspecified; 14 Maps; 32 Halftones, unspecified; 10 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 14 November 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Early Settlement of North America is an examination of the first recognisable culture in the New World: the Clovis complex. Gary Haynes begins his analysis with a discussion of the archaeology of Clovis fluted points in North America and a review of the history of the research on the topic. He presents and evaluates all the evidence that is now available on the artefacts, the human populations of the time, and the environment, and he examines the adaptation of the early human settlers in North America to the simultaneous disappearance of the mammoths and mastodonts. Haynes offers a compelling re-appraisal of our current state of knowledge about the peopling of this continent and provides a significant new contribution to the debate with his own integrated theory of Clovis, which incorporates vital new biological, ecological, behavioural and archaeological data.

Author Biography

GARY HAYNES is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Reviews

'I found The Early Settlement of North America most impressive. Haynes presents a wide-ranging, lively, detailed discussion of his ideas and supporting data. He provides a rich supply of interpretations and testable hypotheses, which will generate continued debate on a host of seemingly intractable topics centered on the peopling of the New World.' Science