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The Great Paleolithic War - How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past (Hardcover)
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The Great Paleolithic War - How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past (Hardcover)
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Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity
had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the
Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American
prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological
strata seemed exactly analogous between America and Europe, which
would lead one to believe that North American humanity ought to be
as old as the European variety. This idea set off an eager race for
evidence of the people who might have occupied North America during
the Ice Age-a long, and, as it turned out, bitter and controversial
search. In The Great Paleolithic War, David J. Meltzer tells the
story of a scientific quest that set off one of the longest-running
feuds in the history of American anthropology, one so vicious at
times that anthropologists were deliberately frightened away from
investigating potential sites. Through his book, we come to
understand how and why this controversy developed and stubbornly
persisted for as long as it did; and how, in the process, it
revolutionized American archaeology.
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