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First Peoples in a New World Populating Ice Age America

David J. Meltzer

Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found themselves in a world rich in plants and animals, but also a world still shivering itself out of the coldest depths of the Ice Age. The movement of those first Americans was one of...

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The MeatEater Podcast

It was described as containing the whole story and everything the author knew about ice age hunters, Clovis, and related topics. A revised edition was published in 2023 due to many updates and new information, especially in the field of genetics.

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If you're interested in ice age hunters and Clovis and... All that good stuff. Killing mammoths or not. Or not.

— Episode: Ep. 268: Clovis Points and Man’s Best Fr...

Episode: Ep. 268: Clovis Points and Man’s Best Friend

It was described as containing the whole story and everything the author knew about ice age hunters, Clovis, and related topics. A revised edition was published in 2023 due to many updates and new information, especially in the field of genetics.

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If you're interested in ice age hunters and Clovis and... All that good stuff. Killing mammoths or not. Or not.

That book was actually almost obsolete as soon as it came out.

The real novel parts are the last 10 years of the genetic work.

It's everything I know. There's nothing left guys. It's the sum of...

Episode: Ep. 178: Hunting Mammoths

It was described as being full of maps and color imagery and used as part of the speaker's home decor to reflect their interests. The author was complimented on their ability to explain complicated topics in an accessible way.

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I rotate Huffman's book of photography with Ice Age Peoples in a New World with your Folsom book. I rotate them and I put them there and it's meant to be like, this is my, my, this is like my, you know, my expression of myself is that, that I value David J. Meltzer's books.

You bring up a thing where you said the movement of people as people are moving around, they're moving quickly.

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