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