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North America's first people / by Janey Levy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hidden history (Gareth Stevens Publishing)Publisher: [New York]: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2017Description: 32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781482457902
  • 1482457903
  • 9781482457926
  • 148245792X
  • 9781482457919
  • 1482457911
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The skeleton in the cave -- Who were the first Americans? -- The Clovis culture -- Oregon's Paisley Caves -- Other pre-Clovis people? -- Kennewick man -- The Bering land bridge -- Across the Atlantic? -- New clues?
Summary: 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? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories and the discoveries that prove and disprove them are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed North America, some more than 13,000 years ago! Fact Boxes, Full-Color Photographs, Further Information Section, Glossary, Graphic Organizers, Index, Sidebars, Websites.
List(s) this item appears in: Archaeology for Kids
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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 970.01 L668 Available 33111009305059
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories--and the discoveries that prove and disprove them--are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed North America, some more than 13,000 years ago!

Includes index.

The skeleton in the cave -- Who were the first Americans? -- The Clovis culture -- Oregon's Paisley Caves -- Other pre-Clovis people? -- Kennewick man -- The Bering land bridge -- Across the Atlantic? -- New clues?

Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.

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? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories and the discoveries that prove and disprove them are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed North America, some more than 13,000 years ago! Fact Boxes, Full-Color Photographs, Further Information Section, Glossary, Graphic Organizers, Index, Sidebars, Websites.

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