288 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note
Includes index.
Contents
Foreword / by Don D. Fowler -- The people. Quest for the past ; The immigrants ; The inhabitants ; The investigators -- Land and culture. The Arctic ; The Subarctic ; The Northeast ; The Southeast ; The Plains ; The Far West ; The Northwest Coast ; The Southwest ; Mexico -- The coming of the Europeans. Epilogue / by Wilcomb E. Washburn.
Summary
Recreates the cultures of the ancestors of today's Indian peoples--their religions, customs, tools, weapons, arts, architecture and scientific knowledge--on the basis of evidence from archaeological sites both large and small, bringing to life the North America of edges previously relegated to a kind of historical limbo.
