The first Americans : race, evolution, and the origin of Native Americans /
Joseph F. Powell.
- viii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) and index.
Prologue: the Kennewick controversy -- Part I. Race and variation. Debating the origins of Native Americans -- A brief history of race -- Evolutionary approaches to human variation -- Recent population variation in the Americas -- Part II. The Pleistocene peopling of America. The Pleistocene and ice-age environments -- Ancient cultures and migration to the Americas -- Kennewick Man and his contemporaries -- Human variation in the Pleistocene -- Part III. The first Americans, race and evolution. Racial models of Native American origins -- Evolutionary models of Native American origins -- The first Americans: Native American origins.
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GBA509248 bnb
013099836 Uk
Paleo-Americans--Origin.--America Paleo-Americans--Migrations.--America Human evolution--America. Human remains (Archaeology)--America. Kennewick Man.