Title:
American beginnings : the prehistory and palaeoecology of Beringia
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Frederick Hadleigh West ; with the assistance of Constance F. West [and others].
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Physical Description:
xxi, 576 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9780226893990
9780226894003
Abstract:
During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Introduction: The Concept of Beringia / David M. Hopkins -- Preamble: The Study of Beringia / Frederick H. West -- Introduction: Reconstructing the Environment / Paul A. Colinvaux -- Ch. 1. Geological Records. Late Pleistocene Stratigraphic Sections from Northern Alaska / Thomas D. Hamilton. Late Quaternary Aeolian Deposits of the Holitna Lowland, Interior Southwestern Alaska / Christopher F. Waythomas. Loess-Ice Formation in Northeastern Asia / T.D. Morozova and Andrej A. Velichko. Palaeogeography of Beringia and Arctida / Savelii V. Tomirdiaro -- Ch. 2. Biotic Records. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Pollen Records from the Southern Brooks Range / Patricia M. Anderson and Linda B. Brubaker. Pollen Records: Barrow, Pribilof Archipelago, and Imuruk Lake / Paul A. Colinvaux. Pollen Records from Archaeological Sites in the Aldanskiy Region, Sakha Republic / G.M. Savvinova, Svetlana A. Fedoseeva and Yuri A. Mochanov.