David L. Browman 
Early Native Americans [PDF ebook] 
Prehistoric Demography, Economy, and Technology

I-XIV — SECTION ONE. Pleistocene Man in North America — Introduction — The Calico Mountains Site: Pleistocene Archaeology in the Mojave Desert, California — The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World — Wisconsin and Pre-Wisconsin Stone Industries of New York State and Related Tools from a Shop Site near Tula, Mexico — The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts — Fractured Cherts from Pleistocene Fossiliferous Beds at Medicine Hat, Alberta — The California Coastal Region: Its Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climate and Function as an Ice Age Refugium — SECTION TWO. Microblade Traditions and Migrations — Introduction — Early Migrations to America in the Light of a Study of the Dyuktai Paleolithic Culture in Northeast Asia — Concerning the Cultural Contacts Between Asia and America in the Late Paleolithic — Fluted Points at the Batza Téna Obsidian Source, Northwestern Interior Alaska — Late Paleolithic Cultures in Alaska — Microblades and Prehistory: Technological and Cultural Considerations for the North Pacific Coast — SECTION THREE. Paleodemography — Introduction — An Ecological Interpretation of Variation in Mortality Within Three Prehistoric American Indian Populations From Dickson Mounds — Patterns of Microscopic Bone Remodeling in Three Aboriginal American Populations — Epigenetic Distance: A Study of Biological Variability in the Lower Illinois River Region — A Sample of Northern North American Hunter-Gatherers and the Malthusian Thesis: An Explicitly Quantified Approach — SECTION FOUR. Later Cultural Adaptations and Technological Studies — Introduction — Prehistoric Diet and Parasites in the Desert West of North America — Prehistoric Basketry of Western North America and Mexico — The Introduction, Use, and Technology of Fiber-Tempered Pottery in the Southeastern United States — Coding and Cluster Analysis of Wisconsin Ceramics — The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared — An Interpretation of the Two-Climax Model of Illinois Prehistory — Biographical Notes — Index of Names — Index of Subjects