Review of The Settlement of the American Continents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography Edited by C. Michael Barton, Geoffrey A. Clark, David R. Yesner, and Georges A. Pearson

Authors

Steven Holen, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Date of this Version

Spring 2006

Comments

Published in Great Plains Research 16:1 (Spring 2006). Copyright © 2006 The Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Used by permission.

Abstract

Organized into three sections-"The First Settlers," "The Trail to the Americas," and "The Land and People Transformed"- The Settlement of the American Continents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography is one of the latest edited volumes on the subject of the peopling of the Americas. Between the editors' introduction and closing, chapters by a number of authors offer diverse views of the early peopling event from the disciplines of physical anthropology, linguistics, genetics, ecological anthropology/archaeology, and paleontology. The volume is well edited, containing copious notes and a good bibliography.