Paleoamerican Odyssey

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Editors: Graf, Kelly E.; Ketron, Caroline V.; and Waters, Michael R.

Publisher: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A & M University

Pub Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Printed boards.  Lower front cover corner bumped.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: “Archaeological evidence from North America shows that Clovis complex sites date between 13,000 and 12,600 cal yr BP.  The evidence for the Clovis complex pre-dating 13,000 cal yr BP is equivocal.  Artifact assemblages are found at a number of sites in South America that date to 13,000 cal yr BP that have no affinity to Clovis.  These data show that both continents were contemporaneously occupied at 13,000 cal yr BP.  The absence of Clovis artifacts in Beringia and the geographic concentration of the Clovis complex in North America south of the continental ice sheets indicate that Clovis-like originated somewhere in the continental United States from an antecedent group.  Several archaeological sites in North and South America provide credible evidence for the occupation of the Americas before Clovis, and these sites date back to ca. 15,000 cal year BP, some 2000 calendar years before Clovis.”  (Page 541, From the Abstract).