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The great Paleolithic war : how science forged an understanding of America's Ice Age past /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meltzer, David J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Archaeology > United States > History.
Paleoanthropology > United States > History.
Natural history > United States > History.
Paleontology > United States > History.
Paleolithic period > North America.
Geology, Stratigraphic > Pleistocene.
Table of Contents:
  • A study in controversy
  • Setting the stage
  • Establishing the American Paleolithic, 1872-1881
  • The American Paleolithic comes of age, 1882-1889
  • The great Paleolithic war, 1890-1897
  • Cro-Magnons in Kansas, Neanderthals in Nebraska, 1899-1914
  • Dangerous to the cause of science, 1915-1925
  • In the belly of the beast, 1921-1928
  • Fast forward, 1930-1941
  • Controversy and its resolution.