| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Decolonizing Indigenous histories : Finding home -- Unpacking colonial baggage : Rise up -- Relations who opened the way : Riddle me this -- Minds wide open -- Pleistocene sites in North America : Old world : -60,000 -- Pleistocene sites in South America -- Genetics, linguistics, oral traditions, and other supporting lines of evidence : Memories -- Reawakening, resisting, rewriting : All my relations -- Appendix: Pleistocene sites and references |
| Summary |
The Indigenous paleolithic of the western hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites (10,200 years ago) but for more than 60,000 years, and likely more than 100,000 years. Steeves discusses the political history of American anthropology to focus on why pre-Clovis sites have been dismissed by the field for nearly a century. She explores supporting evidence from genetics and linguistic anthropology regarding First Peoples and time frames of early migrations. Additionally, she highlights the work and struggles faced by a small yet vibrant group of American and European archaeologists who have excavated and reported on numerous pre-Clovis archaeology sites. In this first book on Paleolithic archaeology of the Americas written from an Indigenous perspective, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere includes Indigenous oral traditions, archaeological evidence, and a critical and decolonizing discussion of the development of archaeology in the Americas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed October 17, 2023) |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- America.
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Paleo-Indians -- America
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Paleolithic period -- America
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- America
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HISTORY / United States / General.
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Discoveries in geography -- Pre-Columbian
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Paleo-Indians
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Paleolithic period
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Prehistoric peoples
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| SUBJECT |
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004253
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| Subject |
America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1496225368 |
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9781496225368 |
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9781496225382 |
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1496225384 |
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9781496225375 |
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1496225376 |
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