| View Larger Image | The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era | Paperbackby Gary Haynes (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | | Edition: | illustrated editionth Edition | | Page Count: | 360 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 16, 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 443,077rd |
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Product Description
This history of the first people to settle in the New World starts with a summary of the archaeology of Clovis-fluted point-makers in North America. Gary Haynes evaluates the wide range of interpretations given to facts about the Clovis. He then presents his own fully developed and integrated theory, which incorporates vital new biological, ecological, behavioral and archaeological data. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 5 reviews)
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The Early Settlement of No. America by Don Axt, (Peoria IL)  2 Stars
August 26, 2009
a lifeless story ... a chore to wade through ... I wonder how it turns out.
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I enjoyed it by D. P. S. Chubert (Fremont, California United States)  5 Stars
October 31, 2008
I liked reading this book because, although it appears to be written for specialists, it's very accessible to the interested layman. For me the best part was the presentation and analysis of the archeological evidence of Clovis people in North America. It's striking how scant this evidence is, how difficult it is to discriminate tools from naturally shattered rocks and bone, how difficult it is to gather and date, and, as a result, how little can be said firmly about the first settlers of the Americas. The only thing that's completely for sure is that there have been people living, in your area, for thousands and thousands of years. That's what I learned from this book! And, there were some great pictures of Clovis artifacts, with some paleolithic European stuff, too.
About half way through or so, the author started to speculate about the lifeways of the Clovis people, whereat I put the book down and moved onward and upward. Still. interesting to read, if you enjoy archeology.
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Clovis Tradition, first Americans? by Dale Guthrie (Fairbanks, AK United States) 5 Stars
April 11, 2004
This book is a gem. There is no other book about the first Americans that has such an even handed thoughtful analysis of the complex array of data involved in the controversy. Haynes is one of the key players in this controversy and his research has cleared up much of the confusion around what can be considered reliable archaeological evidence of human presence. His work with African elephants throws considerable light on how bones can be broken or otherwise altered by natural processes and appear as pseudoartifacts. The book provides a rich background and is written in a readable style for most scientically literate readers. It should be on the shelf of any anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist, ecologist, or enthusiast interested in the peopling of the Americas at the end of the Pleistocene.
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Human Behavior Ecology in Clovis 5 Stars
March 25, 2003
This book was a thoughtful reinterpretation of the existing data pertaining to the nature of Clovis lifeways and settlement in the New World. Rather than concerning himself with the nature or timing of the first Americans, Haynes introduces an ecological perspective to the study of Clovis, a population movement model in which adopting a very specialized adaptive strategy would enable a 'fugitive' culture such as Clovis to spread rapidly throughout the New World.
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Attack of the establishment 2 Stars
March 01, 2003
The info and analysis on the Clovis period is pretty good. However, the emphasis on the "authoritative" position that the Clovis people were the first settlers in the face of a tremendous quantity of mounting evidence that Homo sap. settled North and South America at least 20,000 years before Clovis, greatly detracts from the value of the book.
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