About the Author

Brian M. Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University at California, Santa Barbara. He is regarded as one of the world's most prominent archaeological writers and is the author of 42 books, including The Long Summer, The Little Ice Age: How Climate. Made History. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, into the Unknown: Solving Ancient Mysteries, and The Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World.

Reviews

YAAmerican students traditionally study Indians of North America, but lit tle attention is paid to the original set tlement of the American continents. Here is a thorough discussion of the most probable routes that those original cave people took from Siberia, mov ingover thousands of years throughout North America and on into South America. Fagan methodically describes sites of early human habita tion which have been excavated and carefully dated and also describes vari ous controversies of method and con tent. While the book's factual content sounds imposing, Fagan's writing style is easy and relaxed, making all the in formation accessible and fascinating to lay readers, high-school students in cluded. Photographs and diagrams complete Fagan's effort, and the care ful index allows easy research by lo cale, tool use, age of excavation, etc. Books on archaeological methods, finds, and reconstruction of the history of other areas of the world are common in high-school libraries; it is time one of this quality be available on the Ameri cas. Dorcas Hand, Episcopal High School, Bellaire