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American Beginnings : The Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia by Frederick Hadleigh West (1998, Trade Paperback)

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During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia.

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226894002

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Number of Pages600 Pages

Publication NameAmerican Beginnings : the Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

SubjectArchaeology, United States / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorFrederick Hadleigh West

FormatTrade Paperback

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Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Concept of Beringia by David M. Hopkins Preamble: The Study of Beringia by Frederick H. West Introduction: Reconstructing the Environment by Paul A. Colinvaux Ch. 1: Geological Records Late Pleistocene Stratigraphic Sections from Northern Alaska Thomas D. Hamilton Late Quaternary Aeolian Deposits of the Holitna Lowland, Interior Southwestern Alaska Christopher F. Waythomas Loess-Ice Formation in Northeastern Asia T. D. Morozova, Andrej A. Velichko. Palaeogeography of Beringia and Arctida Savelii V. Tomirdiaro Ch. 2: Biotic Records Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Pollen Records from the Southern Brooks Range Patricia M. Anderson, Linda B. Brubaker. Pollen Records: Barrow, Pribilof Archipelago, and Imuruk Lake Paul A. Colinvaux Pollen Records from Archaeological Sites in the Aldanskiy Region, Sakha Republic G. M. Savvinova, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva, Yuri A. Mochanov. Interpretation of the Pollen Records from Late Quaternary Archaeological Sites of the Aldan Thompson Webb, III Insect Fossil Evidence on Late Wisconsinan Environments of the Bering Land Bridge Scott A. Elias Four Late Pleistocene Large Mammal Localities in Interior Alaska R. Dale Guthrie A Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of the "Mammoth Epoch" of Siberia Valentina V. Ukraintseva, Larry D. Agenbroad, Jim I. Mead. Palaeoecology of the Palaeolithic of the Russian Far East Yaroslav V. Kuzmin Introduction to the Archaeology of Beringia John F. Hoffecker Ch. 3: Aldansk: Aldan River Valley, Sakha Republic Dyuktai Cave Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ust-Mil 2 Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Verkhne-Troitskaya Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ezhantsy Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ikbine 1 and 2 Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Tumulur Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ust-Timpton (Strata Vb-X) Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Kurung 2 (Stratum VI) Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Leten Novyy 1 (Stratum IV) Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. The Dyuktai Site at Km 27 of the Yakutsk-Pokrovsk Highway Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Ch. 4: Priokhotye, Kolyma River Basin, and Kamchatka Berelekh, Allakhovsk Region Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Mayorych, Yagodinskiy Region, Magadan District Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Kukhtuy 3 Yuri A. Mochanov, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva. Bolshoi Elgakhchan 1 and 2, Omolon River Basin, Magadan District Margarita A. Kiryak Uptar and Kheta: Upper Palaeolithic Sites of the Upper Kolyma Region Sergei B. Slobodin, Maureen L. King. The Ushki Sites, Kamchatka Peninsula Nikolai N. Dikov Ch. 5: Southern Primorye Ustinovka 1 Ruslan S. Vasilievsky Late Palaeolithic Sites of the Russian Maritime Province Primorye Anatoly M. Kuznetsov Late Pleistocene Sites of the Selemdga River Basin Anatoly P. Derevianko Ch. 6: Central Alaska: Tanana River Valley Campus Site Charles M. Mobley Donnelly Ridge Frederick H. West Chugwater Ralph A. Lively Broken Mammoth Charles E. Holmes Swan Point Charles E. Holmes, Richard VanderHoek, Thomas E. Dilley Healy Lake John P. Cook Ch. 7: North Central Alaska Range: Nenana and Teklanika Valleys Teklanika West Frederick H. West Dry Creek John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, Nancy H. Bigelow. Owl Ridge John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, Peter G. Phippen. Walker Road Ted Goebel, W. Roger Powers, Nancy H. Bigelow, Andrew S. Higgs. Moose Creek John F. Hoffecker Panguingue Creek

SynopsisDuring the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America. "An invaluable resource. . . . It will no doubt remain the key reference book for Beringia for many years to come."--Steven Mithen, Journal of Human Evolution "Extraordinary. The fifty-six contributors . . . represent the most prominent American and Russian researchers in the region."-- Choice "Publication of this well-illustrated compendium is a great service to early American and especially Siberian Upper Paleolithic archaeology."--Nicholas Saunders, New Scientist "This is a great book . . . perhaps the greatest contribution to the archaeology of Beringia that has yet been published. . . . This is the kind of book to which archaeology should aspire."--Herbert D.G. Maschner, Antiquity