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1	Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent more books like this by Brian M Fagan The entire course of native American history is traced in this book, from the first appearance of humans in the New World, more than 14,000 years ago, to the cataclysmic aftermath of European settlement. This text has been completely revised and expanded. It includes an updated account of controversies over first settlement, and new material on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.75! \| first editions \| SVS
2	In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians more books like this by Jake Page The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most ... see all copies from $4.40! new only from $10.81! \| first editions
3	The Rock Art of Arizona: Art for Life's Sake more books like this by Ekkehart Malotki see all copies from $12.76! new only from $21.15! \| SVS
4	The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery more books like this by James Adovasio, Jake Page In no small part because of Adovasio's work, notions of who first peopled the Western Hemisphere, how they arrived, and how they lived have been radically challenged. After placing this debate in historical context, "The First Americans" tells the full story of the 30-year intellectual war that his work ignited. see all copies from $3.04! new only from $9.87! \| first editions
5	Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory-How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners more books like this by Tom Koppel The theory that humans first arrived in North America via a land bridge is under attack in LOST WORLD. Koppel, a Canadian journalist, examines some findings that argue for migration along costal routes, by way of boats. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
6	Method and theory in American archaeology. more books like this by Gordon R. Willey, P. I. Phillips In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology - a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual archaeology, according to Willey and Phillips, represented a "theoretical debate...a ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $3.84! \| first editions
7	The First Americans: The Story of Where They Came from and Who They Became more books like this by Anthony F Aveni, S D Nelson (Illustrator) For thousands of years nomadic people from east Asia followed caribou walking east. Sometime around 20,000 BCE, they crossed the land bridge into North America. These waves of people are the ancestors to every culture on the continent. Tony Aveni, whose expertise is the scientific, mathematical, and cultural accomplishments of the first Americans, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Last Matriarch more books like this by Sharman Apt Russell Over eleven thousand years ago the plains of the great Southwest were covered with sweet long-season grass and inhabited by camels, bison, mammoths, dire wolves, and the hunter gatherers we now call the Clovis people. This story of Willow, Jak, Etol, and their clan takes place in a land that we unconsciously recognize, and shows us people whose ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Hardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast more books like this by I. Randolph Daniel, Randolph Daniel Jr This analysis of the Hardaway site in the North Carolina Piedmont, challenges the prevalent view of Early Archaic settlement by suggesting that settlement was conditioned less by the availability of food resources than by the limited distribution of high-quality knappable stone in the region. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.83! \| first editions
10	Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology more books like this by Paul H Carlson In this brief, readable history, Paul H. Carlson surveys the Lubbock Lake Landmark's long geologic past, placing emphasis on human activity in the region and showing how early peoples adapted to shifting environmental conditions and changing animal resources. Carlson places this significant national archaeological site in broad perspective, ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $29.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Lost Americans more books like this by Frank C Hibben see all copies from $2.25! first editions
12 view cover	In Search of Ice Age Americans more books like this by Kenneth B Tankersley, Douglas J Preston (Foreword by) Who were the first Americans? Where did they come from? When did they arrive? In this dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest Americans, leading anthropologist Kenneth Tankersley tackles those questions, explaining how people survived the Ice Age and forever altered the course of human history. Drawing on more than 2 decades of ... see all copies from $34.99! new only from $34.99!
13 view cover	The First Americans: Race, Evolution and the Origin of Native Americans more books like this by Joseph F Powell Who were the first Americans? What is their relationship to living native peoples in the Americas? What do their remains tell us of the current concepts of racial variation, and short-term evolutionary change and adaptation. The recent discoveries in the Americas of the 9000-12000 year old skeletons such as 'Kennewick Man' in Washington State, ... see all copies from $24.10! new only from $57.95! \| SVS
14	Early Archaic Indian Points and Knives more books like this by Robert Edler see all copies from $7.50! first editions
15 view cover	Prehistory of Colorado more books like this by Tammy Stone What we now call Colorado has been peopled for at least twelve thousand years, which in human terms is more than four hundred generations. During this period the region has seen a continual ebb and flow of human occupation in response to climatic variation and resource availability, but it has never been uninhabited. Adaptations to these ... see all copies from $2.17! new only from $5.79! \| first editions
16 view cover	Earliest Americans more books like this by Helen Roney Sattler, Jean Day Zallinger (Illustrator) In this book, Helen Roney Sattler presents evidence for the most widely accepted theories about the origins of civilization in the Western Hemisphere. Her succinct and highly readable text, supported by scrupulously accurate and captivating illustrations, contains the latest scientific information about the earliest Americans' many accomplishments. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	Earlier Than You Think: A Personal View of Man in America more books like this by George F. Carter see all copies from $9.99! new only from $24.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Ice Age History of Alaskan National Parks more books like this by Professor Scott A Elias see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
19 view cover	Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America more books like this by Bruce D Smith Awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association, this volume is the first comprehensive consideration of eastern North America as an independent, primary center of plant domestication and agriculture. Focusing on data derived from the expanding discipline of archaeobotany, Bruce D. Smith presents a provocative ... see all copies from $20.19! new only from $29.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Prehis Peoples O/N.A. (Jrs) (Z) more books like this by Diana Childress Introduces the reader to the science of archeology and tracing the development of the Native American civilizations from the migration of people to Alaska from Asia during the Ice Age to the first contact with the Europeans. Includes an eight-page full-color picture essay. see all copies from $1.99!
21 view cover	The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World more books like this by Nina G Jablonski (Editor) As modern humans spread around the globe, the Americas represented the final continental frontier. These first colonists were modern in appearance and technology, but who were they and when did they arrive? Traditional answers to these questions have come under increasing scrutiny in the face of new findings from artifacts, skeletal remains, genes ... see all copies from $19.99! new only from $36.95! \| SVS
22	Michigan Prehistory Mysteries more books like this by Betty Sodders see all copies from $2.58!
23	Amerinds and Their Paleoenvironments in Northeastern North America more books like this by Walter S. Newman (Editor), Bert S. Salwen (Editor), New York Academy of Sciences see all copies from $55.00! first editions
24 view cover	Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies more books like this by Dennis J Stadford, Dennis J Stanford (Editor), Jane Stevenson Day (Editor) This book explores the many questions that still surround the Pleistocene cultures of 12,000 years ago and the adaptations of these early civilisations to the last great ice age, covering issues such as the time of arrival of the first Americans, adaptation to various environments, and the use by early people of high-altitude sites. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $33.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Florida's People During the Last Ice Age more books like this by Barbara A Purdy, James S Dunbar (Foreword by) The time and place of the arrival of the first humans in the Western Hemisphere and their spread throughout the Americas has been a fiercely debated issue for decades. "Florida's People During the Last Ice Age" documents the indisputable evidence of the spread of human populations into Florida nearly 14,000 years ago.Other syntheses of Florida ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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