Rethinking the Peopling of the Americas
Related Websites
Compiled by Jonathan B. Mabry, Desert Archaeology, Inc.
www.centerfirstamericans.com/
This is the website of the Center for the Study of the First Americans (CSFA) at Texas A&M University, "dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue and research and stimulation of public interest in the subject of the peopling of the Americas." Order CSFA publications; read the full texts of recent issues of the Mammoth Trumpet, a quarterly news magazine about current research; and check out an index and selected articles for Current Research in the Pleistocene, an annual journal.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/origin.htm
This the Smithsonian Institution's Paleoamerican Origins page.
http://www.adp.fsu.edu/aenaf.html and http://www.adp.fsu.edu/saa98.html
This is a website about David G. Anderson and Michael K. Faught's ongoing project to compile information about Paleoindian projectile point distributions across North America. View maps of the distributions of more than 12,000 fluted points, read interpretive articles, find references used to build the database, and learn how you can help out.
www.cpluhna.nau.edu/People/paleoindians.htm
This is the web site on Paleoindian and Archaic peoples of the Colorado Plateau on the website called Canyons, Cultures and Environmental Change: An Introduction to the Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau, cosponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, and Northern Arizona University. Check out illustrated articles and bibliographic references.
www.clovisandbeyond.org
This website for the October 1999 conference "Clovis and Beyond" in Santa Fe includes abstracts of presented papers and posters; descriptions of exhibits; biographical sketches of participants; information about in-progress publications stemming from the conference; ordering information for a videotape of the conference; and links to web articles about the conference. There are also links to Stuart Fiedel's controversial 1999 article in the magazine Discovering Archaeology critiquing the Monte Verde II site report, and to a complete response from a number of the scientists involved in the excavation.
www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/new_na.html
Want to know more about Paleoindian environments? This is the North America web site on the Quaternary Environments Network website, edited by Jonathan Adams of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. View detailed maps reconstructing vegetation changes over the last 20,000 years, as part of a project called "Global Atlas of Paleovegetation Since the Last Glacial Maximum." related to the work of the INQUA Paleocarbon Commission.
www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/
This is the National Park Service's web site on Kennewick Man. Read the reports of federally sponsored analyses of this 8,400-year-old skeleton, found in 1996 in Washington state, at the center of a legal battle between scientists who want to study it and Native American groups who want to rebury it. There is also a link to a web site with the full text of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), under which this case will be decided by a federal judge.
http://archaeology.about.com/education/archaeology/msubclovis.htm
This web site provides links to several web sites related to the Clovis First vs. Pre-Clovis debate.
www.lithiccastinglab.com
Order high-quality plastic casts of projectile points from 46 different Paleoindian sites by Pete Bostrom, perhaps the foremost specialist in artifact casting; order posters, cibachrome prints, and slidesets of Paleoindian artifacts; and visit the "Gallery of Wonders" of images of Stone Age artifacts from around the world.
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