Full name: Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent

Author: Brian Fagan Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780500285329 0500285322

Brian Fagan, one of the foremost living archaeological writers and an authority on world prehistory, has completely revised and updated his definitive synthesis of North America's ancient past. The book offers a balanced summary of every major culture area in North America, and places the continent in its wider context in human prehistory. Lavish illustrations, many new to the fourth edition, draw on North America's rich ethnographic record to illustrate key sites and artifacts. The chapter on first settlement has been heavily revised in light of new discoveries in Siberia and the Americas, and current controversies are surveyed. Chapters on archaeological theory, the Great Basin, the Northeast, the Northwest, and the Archaeology of European Contact reflect major advances, and important new discoveries and scientific methodologies receive full coverage. Similar books: Written in Bones by Paul Bahn The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson The First Americans by James Adovasio First Peoples in a New World by David J. Meltzer Gods, Graves & Scholars by C. W. Ceram Skull Wars by David Hurst Thomas Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak In Small Things Forgotten by James Deetz Underworld by Graham Hancock The Road to Ubar by Nicholas Clapp Fairweather Eden by Michael W. Pitts The Goddess and the Bull by Michael Balter Rubbish! by William L. Rathje Making Silent Stones Speak by Kathy D. Schick The Long Summer by Brian Fagan Elixir by Brian Fagan The Great Journey by Brian Fagan In Search of the Indo-Europeans by J. P. Mallory Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe