Powell, Joseph F. 1964-

The first Americans : race, evolution, and the origin of Native Americans / Joseph F. Powell. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. - viii, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-264) and index.

Prologue: the Kennewick controversy -- Part I. Race and variation. Debating the origins of Native Americans -- A brief history of race -- Evolutionary approaches to human variation -- Recent population variation in the Americas -- Part II. The Pleistocene peopling of America. The Pleistocene and ice-age environments -- Ancient cultures and migration to the Americas -- Kennewick Man and his contemporaries -- Human variation in the Pleistocene -- Part III. The first Americans, race and evolution. Racial models of Native American origins -- Evolutionary models of Native American origins -- The first Americans: Native American origins.

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Paleo-Indians--Origin.--America
Paleo-Indians--Migrations.--America
Human evolution--America.
Human remains (Archaeology)--America.
Kennewick Man.


America--Antiquities.

E61 / .P693 2005

599.9/097