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Author Schobinger

Title Ancient Americans
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Taylor and Francis Ltd : Routledge, 2016

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Chapter I INTRODUCTION; Geography and Natural Regions; Brief History of Cave Art Research; Chapter II HUNTERS AND GATHERERS IN PALEOLITHIC AND MID-PALEOLITHIC TIMES ; The Americas During the Ice Age; The Holocene Period; Changes in Fauna; Conclusion; A Brief History of Research on Preceramic Cultures; The First Inhabitants of the Americas: Protolithic Hunters and Gatherers; Large Game Hunters of North America (circa 11,000-6000 B.C.E.); Intensive Hunters and Gatherers of the Middle Postglacial Epoch: The ""Archaic"" Period
Large Game Hunters of South America (circa 11,000-5000 B.C.E.) ""Paleo-Indian"" Art of North America; Art of the Ancient Hunters of South America; Chapter III HUNTERS AND GATHERERS OF THE ANDES (8000-1500 B.C.E.) ; Overview; Late Hunters; Hunter Cave Art in Upper-Andean Peru; Art of the Hunters and Coastal Inhabitants of Northern Chile; Northwestern and Central-Western Argentina; Chapter IV NEOLITHIC AMERICA ; Introduction: The First Farmers; Origin and Spread of Pottery; Development and Spread of the American Neolithic Period; Late Hunters and Marginal Areas
Chapter V CAVE ART OF EARLY FARMERS, EARLY POTTERS, AND LATE HUNTERS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE REGION Part 1: NORTH AMERICA; Overview; The Northwestern Region; Nevada and California; The Southwestern United States; Baja California; The Great Plains; The Eastern United States; Central-Eastern Canada; Part 2: CENTRAL AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN AMAZON; General Information; Central-Southern Mexico; Central America; The Caribbean; Colombia and Venezuela; The Guyanas; The Northern and Western Amazon; Part 3: THE ANDEAN AREA; The Central Andes (Peru) ; Bolivia
Northern and Central ChileNorthwestern Argentina; Part 4: EASTERN AND SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA; Northeastern and Eastern Brazil; Central-Southern Brazil and Neighboring Regions; The Southern Region (Pampa-Patagonia) ; Bibliography; Index
Subject Rock paintings -- America
Petroglyphs -- America
Indians -- Antiquities.
Indian art.
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY -- North America.
Antiquities
Indian art
Indians -- Antiquities
Petroglyphs
Rock paintings
SUBJECT America -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004221
Subject America
Form Electronic book
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