Ancient North America : the archaeology of a continent : Fagan, Brian M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

568 p. : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-557) and index

Background -- Clash of cultures -- Culture history and North American archaeology -- North American archaeology since the 1960s -- The Paleo-Indians -- First settlement -- Later Paleo-Indian cultures -- The Great Plains -- Bison hunters on the plains -- Village farmers of the plains -- The far North -- Early Arctic cultures -- Norton, Dorset and Thule -- The West -- Early foragers on the West Coast -- The myth of the garden of Eden: later societies of the West Coast -- The Great Basin and Western interior -- The Archaic of the Southwest and Lower Pecos -- The origins of Southwestern agriculture and village life -- Villages and Pueblos -- The Eastern Woodlands -- Early and Middle Archaic cultures in the Eastern Woodlands -- Middle to late Archaic cultures in the Eastern Woodlands -- Early Woodland and the Adena Complex -- Middle Woodland and the Hopewell -- Mississippian climax -- Algonquians and Iroquoians -- After Columbus -- The archaeology of European contact