The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past - Hardcover

Meltzer, David J.

 
9780226293226: The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 022629322X ISBN 13: 9780226293226
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological strata seemed exactly analogous between America and Europe, which would lead one to believe that North American humanity ought to be as old as the European variety. This idea set off an eager race for evidence of the people who might have occupied North America during the Ice Age&;a long, and, as it turned out, bitter and controversial search.
           
In The Great Paleolithic War, David J. Meltzer tells the story of a scientific quest that set off one of the longest-running feuds in the history of American anthropology, one so vicious at times that anthropologists were deliberately frightened away from investigating potential sites. Through his book, we come to understand how and why this controversy developed and stubbornly persisted for as long as it did; and how, in the process, it revolutionized American archaeology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David J. Meltzer is the Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory at Southern Methodist University, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Folsom and First Peoples in a New World. He lives in Dallas.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022629322X
ISBN 13 
9780226293226
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Anzahl der Seiten
670
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