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The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past

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Only a few years after the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating history and the Biblical chronicles, and reaching deep into the Pleistocene, came the suggestion that North American prehistory might be just as old. And why not? There seemed to be an "exact synchronism [of geological strata] between Europe and America," and so by extension there ought to be a "parallelism as to the antiquity of man." That triggered an eager search for traces of the people who may have occupied North America ...

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The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past 2015, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226293226

Hardcover