Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory-How New Science Is Tracing Americas Ice Age Mariners - Couverture rigide

Koppel, Tom

 
9780743453578: Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory-How New Science Is Tracing Americas Ice Age Mariners
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ISBN 10 : 0743453573 ISBN 13 : 9780743453578
Editeur : Atria Books, 2003

Présentation de l'éditeur

For decades, textbooks have asserted that America's first human inhabitants came over the Bering 'land bridge' at the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago. So why have many scholars – archaeologists, geologists, biologists, paleontologists – discovered evidence to the contrary? Exploring some of the most exciting discoveries ever to influence our image of the deep past, Lost World is the story of how a cadre of maverick scholars spent the last decade confronting one of the most entrenched orthodoxies.
Award-winning journalist Tom Koppel pieces together a compelling theory as he paints a vivid panorama of a maritime people skirting the North Pacific Rim by boat and surviving in food-rich refugees on the fringes of the retreating glaciers of the Ice Age. Koppel tells his story with verve and style, eloquently evoking the sense of wonder that accompanies each part of the puzzle. The first book to tell the whole story behind this controversial hunt for the truth, Lost World is a triumph of scientific adventure, and nonfiction writing at its best.

Revue de presse

"A fascinating account of what we thought we knew about the past -- and really didn't."
-- Houston Chronicle

"Good science, great read."
-- Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History

"Lost World interweaves the latest scientific findings with exciting new theories...captivating."
-- Tucson Citizen

"[A] spirited narrative that captures the adventure of doing research in...remote and exotic lands."
-- American Archeology

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Éditeur
Atria Books
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0743453573
ISBN 13 
9780743453578
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  074345359X ISBN 13 :  9780743453592
Editeur : Atria, 2005
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