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Who were the earliest Americans? When, how, and from where did they enter and spread across the continent? And what is their relationship to modern Native Americans?

Presents recent archaeological findings about the first people to settle the Americas, how they got here, and from what continent they came.

In the 12th Century, a Welsh prince and his band of men sail to America where they intermarry with Indian women to form a colony. The novel chronicles the colony's rise and fall, including the fate of its descendants, an Indian tribe near the Ohio River whose members have flaxen hair and grey-blue eyes. A story based on a Welsh legend. By the author of Follow the River.

The story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists brought about and the firestorm it ignited. J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about,...

Examines the history of American Indians before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and other European explorers to North America.

Suggests that the first men were of the pebble tool chopper tradition who used stone projectile points on wide-ranging big hunts. Furthermore he believes they were the antecedents of the Asian immigrants previously thought to have been the primal tribe on the continent.

"This revolutionary archeological synthesis argues an alternative model of the earliest human population of North America. E. James Dixon dispels the stereotype of big-game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge and paints a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World. Applying contemporary scientific methods and drawing on new archeological discoveries, he advances evidence indicating...