Bones: Discovering the First Americans by Elaine Dewar
Description
Asian origins? : Clovis First across the Bering Strait -- Bones 101 : a sordid history begets a compromised science -- Found and lost : the misplaced remains of the accepted path -- The battle for Monte Verde : rewriting the First American story--by committee -- The founding mothers : the spectral trail of mitochondrial DNA -- Virtual bones : are reburied remains hard evidence? -- The Kennewick chronicles : science, history, politics, religion-- and the United States Army -- Excavating the museum shelves : weaving a new image of ancient Americans -- We were always here : some Native American histories -- Pendejo Cave : Indiana Jones digs down to the foundation -- Beneath the Southern Cross : the road leads back in time -- Lunch with Luzia : the fine African features of the oldest woman in the Americas -- Proof parasite : a wormhole in the Bering Strait theory -- Revisionist prehistory : bones beyond the bounds of accepted theory -- Brazilian edens : the sheltered finds of Minas Gerais -- Science contender : dispatches from the most ancient trenches -- Pedra Furada : ancient arts of the little people -- Science under fire : the inquisition of Karl Reinhard -- The Kennewick shuffle : dancing around the hard questions -- The reverse migration : north, by boat -- The corridor that wasn't : the cold facts behind the absence of evidence -- Hard science, hardball politics : Kennewick reevaluated -- Going home : burying the bones, treasuring the past.
628 pages :maps ;23 cm
Book Details
Author
Dewar, Elaine.
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
2004
Publication Subjects
Indians--Origin.
Indians--Anthropometry.
Human remains (Archaeology)--America.
Human remains (Archaeology)--fast--(OCoLC)fst00963213
Indians--Anthropometry.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00969311
Indians--Origin.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00969391
Call No.
E61 .D463 2004
ISBN
0786713771, 9780786713776
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-610) and index.
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