Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Setting the Stage: Environmental Conditions in Beringia as people entered the New World Scott A. Elias What do you do when no one's been there before? Thoughts on the exploration and colonization of new lands David J. Meltzer Anatomically modern humans, maritime voyaging, and the Pleistocene colonization of the Americas Jon M. Erlandson Facing the past: A view of the North American human fossil record D. Gentry Steele and Joseph F. Powell Teeth, needles, dogs and Siberia: Bioarchaeological evidence for the colonization of the New World Christy G. Turner II The migrations and adaptations of the first Americans: Clovis and pre-Clovis views from South America A.C. Roosevelt, John Douglas and Linda Brown Plant food and its implications for the peopling of the New World: A view from South America Tom D. Dillehay and Jack Rossen Ocean trails and prairie paths? Thoughts about Clovis origins Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley The first American languages Johanna Nichols A Mitochondrial perspective on the peopling of the New World D. Andrew Merriwether

About the Author

Nina G. Jablonski is Irvine Chair and Curator of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. She coedited Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol (1997) and The Origin and Diversification of Language (1998), California.