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The First North Americans
The history of North American settlement is believed to have begun some 15,000 years ago with the arrival of peoples of Asiatic origin, who crossed to present-day Alaksa from Siberia. In The First North Americans, Brian Fagan charts the remarkable peopling of a continent, taking us from the first settlers through the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century A.D.
Drawing on disciplines that include archaeology, biology, climatology, ethnohistory, chemistry and physics, Fagan describes how a remarkable diversity of societies evolved in the rapidly changing North American environments, and explores the ingenious ways in which people adapted to every kind of landscape imaginable. Taking us from the Ancestral Pueblo societies of the Southwest to the Moundbuilder societies of the Eastern Woodlands to the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples of the Northeast, he offers both breadth and depth in his account. And, in a fascinating epilogue, he enumerates the devastating consequences of European contact for Native Americans.
As intriguing for its storytelling as it is for its prodigious research, The First North Americans captures the full range and complexity of an extraordinary heritage.
Hardcover : 272 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Inc. ( April 01, 2011 )
Item #: 13-317715
ISBN: 9780500021200
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 8.75 inches
Product Weight: 29.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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