First peoples in a new world: colonizing ice age America

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Overture

On dates and dating

2: Landscape of colonization: glaciers, climates, and environments of Ice Age North America

Younger Dryas: it came from outer space?

3: From Paleoliths to Paleoindians

Mammoth fraud in science

4: Pre-Clovis controversy and its resolution

Visit to Monte Verde

5: Non-archaeological answers to archaeological questions

Then there was Kennewick

6: American origins: the search for consensus

Looking for Clovis in all the wrong places

7: What do you do when no one's been there before?

8: Clovis adaptations and Pleistocene extinctions

Is overkill dead?

9: Settling in: late Paleoindians and the waning Ice Age

Back to Folsom

10: When past and present collide

Further reading

Notes

References

Index.