Prehistory of the Americas
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Book Overview
Fiedel's book, exploring the development of the prehistoric cultures of North, Central and South America from about 10,000 BC to AD 1530, has been updated to include discussion of recent discoveries... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521415322
ISBN13:9780521415323
Release Date:May 1992
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:422 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.1" x 10.3"
Customer Reviews
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A good place to start
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Coming at this subject with little knowledge and prepared for the worst I got this. I don't think I could have done better. OK so it's 18 years old and things move on (phytoliths and better radiocarbon dating for example). But I manages to cover EVERYTHING in enough detail that you feel you know where to start looking for more info. The book is academic but, there being no eyewitness accounts, so is the subject matter. But the best part to me is the writing. Prof Fiedel is clear, fluent and does have an opinion. His analyses of such things as the first hunters onto the continent, the rise of population, the first settlements, agriculture, civilisation and trade is clear and a pleasure to read. He is excellent at demolishing standard models for these events by pointing out the cases where they don't work. Yes, the book hasn't got many pictures. Yes the maps are often in the wrong place in the book and sometimes they haven't got all the sites labelled. But you can probably look up the rest on the internet now (something you probably couldn't have done when the book was first published). Seeing as there's nothing else quite like this (why, I don't know), it's a good place to start.
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