Index

Abalone, 125, 130, 139

Abbey, Edward, 159, 202

Ablation, glacial, 27

Absaroka Range, 14–5

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, 151

Accumulation, glacial, 149

Across Atlantic Ice (Stanford) 175, 177

Admiralty Island, 113

Africa, 19, 38, 42, 52, 81–2, 124–26, 168–69, 185, 201

Agave, 108–9

Agriculture, 34, 38, 186, 191, 199

AIDS, 191

Alaska, 1–2, 6–7, 14, 24, 38–9, 66–7, 72, 78, 93, 97, 112–13, 116–17, 119–20, 174, 184, 190

Alberta, Canada, 72, 98, 114, 174, 195, 198

Aleut people, 18, 92

Aleutian Islands, 83

Alexander Archipelago, 133

Altai Mountains (Mongolia), 56

Amanita mushrooms, 59–60

Amazon, 200

Amba River (Siberia), 44, 46–7

Andes Mountains, 84

Arctica, 36, 81

Anthropology, 124–25, 148

Anzick site (Montana), 9–18, 20, 75, 87, 117, 147, 166–67, 170–82, 187

Anzick, Helen, 12, 172

Anzick, Mel, 9–10, 12–3

Anzick, Sarah, 13, 182

Appleman Lake (Indiana), 194

Archaeology, 3–4, 6–7, 9–18, 20–1, 33–5, 42, 63–5, 110–11, 147–48, 165–66, 180–81

Archaic culture, 6, 123

Arctic Ocean, 6, 85, 115, 119–20

Arctic, 17, 33, 43, 65, 81–2, 85–8, 128, 132, 153–55, 162, 201

Arizona, 6, 120, 148, 187

Arkansas State University, 182–83

Armagosa points, 123

Aronson, Mark, 171

Arrowheads, 4–5, 7, 21, 73, 165, 172, 175

Artifacts, 4–5, 7, 9–10, 12–14, 24, 33, 51, 56–7, 68–9, 71–3, 75, 89, 137, 145, 149–51, 157, 165–68, 170–72, 175, 180–81, 198–200

Asteroid impact, 38, 186, 192–93

Astronomy, 123–24

Athapaska people, 101

Atlantic Ocean, 37–8, 85

Australia, 2, 41, 82–3, 104, 127, 137

Aztec culture, 170

Baja Peninsula, 120

Baranof Island, 113

Beluga whale, 153–54

Bering Strait, 2, 28–9, 43, 58, 64, 66, 81–3, 85–6, 90–1, 150, 187–88

Beringia, 8–11, 28, 39, 43, 68, 72, 81, 90, 93, 102, 105, 107, 112–3, 127, 145, 161, 174, 193

Beringian Standstill theory, 91, 97–8

Bifaces, 10, 56, 71, 89, 151, 170–72, 180–81

Bighorn sheep, 109

Bikin River (Siberia), 44–8

Binford, Louis, 6

Biophilia, 19

Bison, American, 30, 64–5, 78, 94, 109, 111, 167, 169, 193

Black bear, 47, 111, 129, 167

Black Mat formation, 187–89, 191–93, 199

Blackfeet Nation, 144–45

Blue Fish Caves site (Yukon), 100–2

Blue Fish River (Yukon), 100

Blue whale, 141

Boats, 134–38, 139–42

Bølling-Allerød interstadial period, 36–7, 93, 189–90, 196–96

Bonnichsen, Rob, 173–74, 181–83

Boulder, Colorado, 190

Bradley, Bruce, 175

Bray, Bill 172

Brazil, 102

British Columbia, 7–8, 25–6, 36–7, 79, 107

Brokaw, Tom, 45–8

Brooks Range (Alaska), 6

Bullboats, 139–42

Burials (Paleoindian), 9–18, 20, 75, 87, 117, 147, 166–67, 171–72, 174–80

Burke Channel, 130–31

Butchering sites, 31, 55–6, 85, 87, 89, 101–3, 141, 148, 151–52, 162, 172

Buttermilk Creek complex (Texas), 155–57, 183

Cactus Hill site (Virginia), 150–51

California, 32, 109, 137, 142–43, 194

Camel (Pleistocene), 101, 167, 187, 190, 201

Canada goose, 4

Canada, 7, 67–8, 78, 114, 127–28, 192, 195, 198

Candlefish, 129

Canoes, 142

Cape Caution, 128

Carbon-14 dating, 23–4, 73, 102–3, 106, 113, 133, 143–44, 149–50, 173–74, 180–81, 183

Caribou, 78, 109, 141, 154, 193

Cascade Mountains, 158

Catfish, 125

Cave bears, 105

Center for the Study of First Americans, 182–83

Channel Islands, 137

Chapala Basin site (Mexico), 84

Charcoal remains, 84, 133, 143, 148–50

Chert, 4–5, 10, 86, 156–57, 172, 190

Chesapeake Bay, 176

Cheyenne Nation, 182

Chichagof Island, 113

Chihuahua, Mexico, 48, 79

Chile, 66, 70, 84, 104, 136, 143, 148–50, 156, 161

China, 93–4, 103

Chippewa Nation, 5

Chouinard, Yvon, 45–8

Clams, 131–32, 139

Climate change, 1–3, 15–6, 22, 33–4, 37–8, 64–5, 77–8, 81, 117, 124–28, 148, 165–67, 184–203

Clovis culture, 2–3, 6–7, 9–18, 20–1, 30–1, 38, 40–1, 50–1, 53, 55–60, 63–4, 87, 91, 99–100, 117, 133, 143, 147–48, 149–50, 165–82, 185–86, 198–200

Clovis First theory, 50, 53, 69–71, 148, 157, 160, 174

Clovis point, 9, 12–14, 24, 33, 51, 56–7, 68–9, 72, 75, 137, 145, 149–50, 157, 165–68, 198–200

Cognitive (also Behavioral) modernity theory, 124–126

Colorado River, 18

Colorado, 115–16, 190, 194

Columbia River, 75–6, 128, 142, 152, 161

Comet impact theory, 192–93

Continental Divide (N. America), 26

Coprolites, 148, 158–63

Cordilleran ice sheet, 17–8, 30, 67, 99–100, 129

Coyote, 159–60

Crabs, 122, 130–32, 136

Crater Lake, 158

Crow Nation, 182

CT scanning, 149

Deglaciation, 1–2, 16, 25, 27, 33, 36, 38–9, 65, 68–9, 100, 117, 131–32, 136, 143, 193, 197, 200

Denmark, 177

Dental evidence, 92

Deschutes River, 161

Desert Solitaire (Abbey), 202

Dhole dog, 32

Dire wolf, 1, 30, 60, 84, 97, 141, 187, 197, 199

Discover magazine, 156–57

Discovery channel, 74

DNA testing (ancient), 13, 91, 98, 106, 113, 149, 151, 158–63, 177, 180–82, 192

Dodo, 86

Dogs, 32, 93–4, 144, 152, 155, 186, 189, 191, 198

Drought, 126–27

Dung fungus, 194–95

Dust, study of, 63

East China Sea, 83

Economics, 22

Edmonton, Alberta, 114

Edwards Plateau (Texas), 157

Elephants, 168–69

Elk, 109, 111, 117, 172–74, 187, 193, 198

Ellison, Jib, 45

Erratic rocks (glacial), 28, 144–45, 174

Evolution (human), 77, 124–25

Extinction, 3, 16–7, 40, 63, 74, 78, 115, 165, 168–69, 185–86, 188–89

Famine, 126–27

Fin whale, 121, 141

Fingerprints, of paleoindians, 86

Fire, 84, 93–6, 105, 133, 150–51

Fitzhugh Sound, 131

Flathead Creek (Montana), 172

Florida, 55, 70

Folsom culture, 188, 191

Fontana, Bernard, 8

Food stress theory, 198–99

Footprints, of paleoindians, 86

Forests, 39–40, 103, 140–41

Fort Yukon, 100

Fossil Lake (Oregon), 161

Fossils, 30, 55, 68, 101–2, 112–13, 133, 143

Fox, 159

France, 71, 85, 166

Frasier River, 152

Friedkin site (TX), 155–57

Gaia Hypothesis, 34–5

Gardiner Post Office (Montana), 179

Gathering, 93–5, 108–9

Gault site (Texas), 155–57, 183

Geist, Valerius, 40–1, 55–6

Genetics, 21, 66, 91

Genocide, 22

Geology, 145

Geology, 63, 75, 78, 144

Glacial melt, 1–2, 16, 25, 27, 33, 36, 38–9, 65, 68–9, 100, 117, 131–32, 136, 143, 193, 197, 200

Glacier National Park, 26–7, 48, 113, 136

Glaciers, 16, 24, 26–7, 33–5, 39–40, 65, 67–8, 77, 116–17, 134, 144

Glaciology, 21

Global cooling, 37–8

Global warming, 1–3, 15–6, 22, 33–4, 37–8, 64–5, 77–8, 81, 117, 124–28, 148, 165–67, 184–203

Glyptodont, 31

Gold mining, 72, 97

Gomphothere, 167–68

Grayling, 101

Great auk, 87

Great Falls of the Missouri, 88

Great Lakes, 4, 6, 38, 186, 192

Great Plains, 72, 109, 169, 186

Green Beret (US Army), 60, 120

Greenhouse gasses, 126–27

Greenland, 28, 36–7, 153, 187

Griffin, James B., 6

Grizzly bear, 7–8, 15, 41–3, 48–9, 51–3, 72, 78–9, 84, 88, 94, 98–100, 105–117, 128, 133, 139, 153, 160, 193–94, 197, 200

Grizzly Years (Peacock), 8, 11

Ground sloth, 31, 152, 190, 199

Guggenheim fellowship, 21

Gulf of California, 120–22

Guthrie, A.B., 186

Gyrfalcon Lake (Montana), 27

Haida Nation, 130

Hargis, Ben, 10, 180

Harpoons, 125

Harrison, Jim, 9–10

Haynes, C. Vance, 148

Hearths, 150–51

Hecate Strait, 136

Heilstuk Nation, 127–28, 130

Himalayan Mountains, 25–6

Hinton, Thomas, 8

HIV, 191

Holocene epoch, 37–8, 195, 199

Horse, (Pleistocene), 65, 101, 167, 187, 190, 199

Hunting, 86–9, 108–9, 115–16, 139–42, 144, 166–70, 189–91

Hypothermia, 135

Hyundai, 45–6

Iberian Peninsula, 71, 84–5

Ice Sheets, 27–8, 30, 36–7, 67, 99–100

Ice-Free Corridor (IFC), 9, 28–9, 39, 67–8, 72–3, 92, 99–100, 113–14, 117, 143, 145–46, 158, 160–61, 166, 173–74, 187

Idaho Accelerator Center, 175

Idaho, 175, 178

Indiana, 194

Inuit people (Eskimo), 7, 18, 152–53, 155

Iowa, 171–72

Island biogeographic theory, 188–89

Jaguarundi, 121–22

Japan, 82–3

Javalina, 121–22

Jewelry, 125

Kamchatka Peninsula, 83

Kansas, 57, 103

Katabatic winds, 100

Kennewick Man, 75–6

KGB, 46

Kimmswick site (Missouri), 168–69

Kurten, Bjorn, 50–1

Kutchin people, 100–1

Kwakiutl Nation, 130

La Brea Tar Pits (California), 32, 197

Lahren, Larry, 9–18, 172–74, 181–84

Lake Agassiz, 37–8

Lake Baikal (Siberia), 17–8, 144

Lake Superior, 4

Lannan Foundation, 21

Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 28–9, 38–9, 55, 67–8, 73, 81, 85, 90, 106, 114, 126, 145, 150

Laurentide ice sheet, 28–9, 30, 67

Leakey, Louis, 86

Lewis and Clark Expedition, 18, 88

Lewis, Bart, 153–55

Libertad, Sonora, 120

Linguistics, 21, 63, 66–7, 125

Lion, American (Pleistocene), 15, 41, 84, 89–90, 94, 97, 152, 163, 187, 196–97, 199

Lithics, 9, 12–14, 24, 33, 51, 56–7, 68–9, 71–2, 75, 85, 87, 123, 131, 145, 149–50, 156–57, 165–68, 175–76, 178–79, 189–90, 198–200

Livingston Natural History Museum (Montana), 9

Lodgepole pine, 15

Logging industry, 45–6

Los Angeles Times, 35–6

Lovelock, James, 34–5, 201

Lower Sonoran Desert, 121–22

Mackenzie River, 6, 8, 100

Mammoth, 30–1, 41, 69–70, 78, 87–8, 94, 148, 165, 167–68, 184, 187–89, 195, 198–99

Manifest Destiny (doctrine), 19

Maritime economy, 130–37, 162

Mastodon, 30–1, 141–42, 151–52, 167–68, 183, 187, 196, 199

Mauritius, 86

Mayflower (ship), 19

Meadowcroft Rockshelter site (Penn.), 148–50, 158, 184

Megafauna (of Pleistocene), 1–2, 17, 24–7, 40–1, 63, 86–7, 107, 148, 165, 168, 185–86, 189, 198–200

Meltwater lakes, 36, 100, 117, 143

Mexico, 7–8, 30–1, 48, 66, 70, 79, 84, 86, 102, 108–9, 120–22, 167–68

Michigan, 4–6

Microdepitage, 156–57

Middens, 123–24

Middle East, 38

Migration routes, of paleoindians, 9, 28–9, 39, 67–70, 72–3, 82–4, 71–3, 91–92, 99–100, 104, 113–14, 117, 119–46, 149, 158, 160–61, 166, 173–74, 187

Minke whale, 141

Mississippi River, 55, 109, 168

Missouri River, 18, 70, 88, 167–69, 174, 179

Moa, 87

Mongolia, 56

Montana, 9–10, 18, 26, 48, 134, 185–86, 198

Monte Verde site (Chile), 84, 133, 143, 148–50, 157

Moose, 109, 193

Moraines, 39, 117, 133, 144

Moss agate, 175–76

Mount Toba (Sumatra), 82, 126–27

Mountain goat, 109

Mountain lion (cougar), 112, 197

Mountain pine beetle, 15

Muir, John, 19

Murray Hotel (Montana), 9, 11

Mushrooms, 59–60, 193–94

Musk ox, 31, 78, 94, 116, 154, 193

Mussels, 131–32, 139

Na-Dene language group, 18, 92

Namu, BC, 131

Narwhal, 154

National Geographic, 11–2, 63, 73–4

National Human Genome Research Institute, 13

Native Americans, 5, 7, 18, 76, 92, 100, 120–22, 127–30, 144–45, 152–55, 182

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, 32

Neanderthals, 82, 105, 124–25

Nevada, 151–52

New Mexico, 57, 86

New York, 194–95

New Yorker, 63, 73

New Zealand, 87, 136

Newfoundland, 107

Nile River, 125

Nootka Nation, 130

North American Graves Preservation and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) 76–7, 180, 182–83

North Cascades National Park, 134

Northern Arizona University, 181

Norway, 107, 136

Nottoway River, 150

Nova (PBS), 74

Obsidian, 178

Ochre (red), 9, 89, 125, 172–74, 180–1

Ohio, 28

Oil industry, 6

Old Crow (Yukon), 100

Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), 86

Olympic Peninsula site, 142, 151–52, 183

Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), 156–57

Orca, 141

Oregon State University, 181

Oregon, 66, 70, 104, 108, 117, 142, 148, 157–63

Overkill theory, 168–69

Oysters, 129, 139

Pacific coastal migration route, 68–70, 72–3, 83–4, 91–2, 104, 119–46, 149, 160–61, 166

Pacific Ocean, 68–70, 73, 82–4, 91–92, 119–20, 158, 160–61, 166

Paisley Cave (Ore.), 157–63

Paleontology, 21, 52–3, 63, 72, 106, 110–11

Palynology, 63

Panama, 70, 161

Papworth, Mark, 6, 8, 11–12, 172, 178, 181

Paradise Valley (Montana), 9

Paralytic Shellfish Disease (PSD), 58–9, 131–32

Parry Channel, 132

Pedra Furada site (South America), 84

Pelican Valley (Yellowstone), 49

Pemmican, 117, 129, 170, 198

Pennsylvania, 68, 103, 150, 162, 184, 192

Perception of risk theory, 3. 20, 77

Peregrine falcon, 100

Phosphoria, 175

Pikunov, Dmitri, 44–8

Pine River (Michigan), 5

Plant collecting, 18, 40, 57–59, 65, 75, 78, 93–5, 99, 107–9, 119, 121, 123, 170, 190

Pleistocene epoch, 1–2, 6–7, 13, 16, 25–7, 49, 53–4, 77–8, 105–6, 119–20, 148, 174, 186–87

Point Barrow, Alaska, 119–20

Poison Cove (BC), 131

Poisonous plants, 58–60

Polar bear, 152–55

Polar ice caps, 27

Pollen studies, 143, 194

Porcellite, 175

Porcupine River (Alaska) 8, 100–1

Pottery, 123

Powell, John Wesley, 18

Pre-Clovis cultures, 24, 42–3, 55, 66, 70, 70–1, 74, 84–6, 133, 147–63, 166–67

Pre-Max glacial period, 91–2, 95, 98–100, 102, 116, 127

Prince of Wales Island (Alaska), 116–17

Psychedelic plants, 59–60

Puffins, 139

Quarries, 70, 167, 175–76, 178–79

Queen Charlotte Channel, 136

Queen Charlotte Islands, 8, 131

Queen Charlotte Strait, 128

Racism, 76

Radiocarbon dating, 23–4, 73, 102–3, 106, 113, 133, 143–44, 149–50, 173–74, 180–81, 183

Red Sea, 127, 136

Red tides, 58

Reindeer, 65

Repatriation, 1, 8, 76, 180, 183

Rewilding movement, 186

Ridgeway, Rick, 45–8, 153–55

RNA testing (ancient), 192

Rocky Mountain Trench, 144

Rocky Mountains, 6–9, 26, 28, 33, 70, 72, 79, 120, 144–45, 178, 198

Ross Ice Sheet, 36–7

Round River Conservation Studies, 127–28

Rummels-Maske site (Iowa), 171–72

Russia, 8, 14, 17–8, 24, 38–9, 64–6, 72, 81–2

Ryukyu Islands (Japan), 82–3

Sabretooth cat, 1, 7, 32–3, 60, 78, 84, 143, 196–97, 203

Saginaw Basin (Michigan), 6

Saiga antelope, 94

Salmon, 101, 109–10, 129–30, 132, 141–42, 162

Saltville site (Virginia), 103, 151

San Carlos, Sonora, 120

San Juan Islands, 136

SARS, 191

Sarver, Calvin, 10, 12, 180–81

Scallops, 122

Science, 155–56

Scientific American, 157

Scimitar cat, 32, 94

Sea level changes, 36–7, 132–33, 136, 142, 193

Sea lions, 139–40

Sea of Cortez, 120–22

Sea otter, 140

Seals, 137, 166

Seasonal mapping, 125

Seri el Desemboque, 121

Seri people, 120–22

Shellfish, 58–9, 120–24, 129, 130–32, 136, 138–39

Shields River (Montana), 10–11, 172, 178

Short-faced bear, 1, 7, 25–7, 49–50, 53–60, 64, 84, 91, 94, 96–7, 103, 115, 126, 141–43, 152, 161, 163, 184, 189, 199

Siberia, 8, 14, 17–8, 24, 38–9, 64–6, 72, 81–2, 107, 109, 128, 174

Siberian tiger, 8, 44–8

Sierra Madre Mountains (Mexico), 48. 108–9

Skeletal remains, 9–18, 20, 75–6, 87, 117, 147, 166–67, 171–72, 174–80

Smithsonian Institution, 182

Snakes, poisonous, 59–60

Solutrean culture, 71–2, 85, 166, 173, 173

Sonora, Mexico, 30–1, 120–22, 167–68

South Carolina, 66, 86, 103, 192

South China Sea, 120

Spain, 71, 73, 85, 120, 166

Spanish influenza, 191

Special Forces, (US Army) 7, 60, 120

Spicer, Edward, 8

Sporomeilla fungus, 194–96

St. Lawrence Valley, 37–8

Stanford, Dennis, 175

Steelhead (trout), 129

Sumatra, 82, 126–27

Syria, 192

Taima-Taima site (Venezuela), 84

Taku River, 136

Tapir, 167, 187

Tasmania, 86

Taylor, D.C., 11–13, 181–82

Tertiary era, 6

Texas A&M University, 155–57, 182

Texas first theory of Clovis, 155–57, 169, 171, 179

Texas, 66, 70, 103, 149, 155–57, 169, 171, 179, 183

Thule people (Inuit), 100, 154–55

Tiburon Island, 120

Tiger, The (Vaillant) 44–8

Tlingit Nation, 127–29, 130, 182

Tompkins, Doug, 45–8, 153–55

Tooth studies, 92, 196–97

Topper, S. Carolina, 151

Trans-oceanic migration route, 71–3, 82–3, 104, 149

Treadwell, Timothy, 110

Udege people (Siberia), 45–6

Umatilla Nation, 76

University of Arizona, 148

University of Calgary, 174

University of Michigan, 6

University of Montana, 11, 181–82

University of Oregon, 159–60, 163

Ural Mountains, 82

Uranium mining, 202

Utah, 103

Vaca, Cabeza de, 18–9

Valentine Creek (Montana), 26–7

Vancouver Expedition, 131

Venezuela, 84

Vietnam War, 7, 60, 120

Virginia, 55, 102–3, 150–51

Walrus, 132

Wanderlust, 165

Washington state, 66, 70, 108, 117, 134, 151–52

Washington Times, 73

Waterfowl, 67, 89, 99, 117, 139, 144, 198

Weapons, of paleoindians, 4–5, 7, 9–10, 12–14, 21, 24, 33, 51, 56–57, 68–69, 72–73, 75, 94, 96, 115, 123, 137, 145, 149–50, 157, 165–69, 172, 175, 188, 191, 198–200

West Arctic Ice Sheet, 36

White supremacy, 76

Whitebark pine, 15, 40

Wilderness, 16, 19–20, 76, 78, 127–28, 202–03

Wilsall, Montana, 147

Wilson, Edward O., 19

Wind River Range (Wyoming), 27, 134

Wisconsin glaciation, 27–8

Wisconsin, 66, 70, 148, 152, 161

Wolf, Gray 32, 60, 88, 97, 108, 111–12, 159, 197

Wolverine, 89, 111

Wood rat, 160

Woolly rhinoceros, 64, 89–90, 91

Wright, Henry, 8

Wyoming, 27, 103, 175

Yana Rhino Horn Site (Siberia), 66–7, 81–2, 87, 91, 93, 97, 100, 115

Yellowstone National Park, 9, 15, 34–5, 49, 64, 76, 110–12, 116, 160, 173,

Yellowstone River, 9–10, 176, 178

Yellowtail, Bill, 182

Younger Dryas (YD) stadial period, 37–8, 165–66, 181–82, 184, 187–88, 192–94, 198–99

Yukon River, 6, 8, 24, 79, 100–2, 184

Zeva River (Siberia), 46

Zoology, 63, 104

Zoonotic diseases, 191–93