Used Book in Good Condition Fiedel's book, exploring the development of the prehistoric cultures of North, Central and South America from about 10,000 BC to AD 1530, has been updated to include discussion of recent discoveries and analyses of their implications. The author describes how different regions of the New World evolved, affected by a variety of factors ranging from population growth to climate change. He compares the evolution of the New World with that of the cultures of the Old World. Discussion of the development of American archaeology from the early European encounters with native Americans to the "new" archaeology is also included.
By A Customer This is a wide-ranging summary of the entire prehistory of North, Central, and South America. This book does a good job at giving a broad and general introduction of the entire scope of prehistory for these continents. It is a cheap and relatively solid reference book for at an introductory level for the non-specialist.The text, however, has many drawbacks. It contains very few illustrations and the ones that are in the book are black-and-white line dra..
Coming at this subject with little knowledge and prepared for the worst I got this. I don't think I could have done better. OK so it's 18 years old and things move on (phytoliths and better radiocarbon dating for example). But I manages to cover EVERYTHING in enough detail that you feel you know where to start looking for more info. The book is academic but, there being no eyewitness accounts, so is the subject matter.But the best part to me is the writing. Prof Fiedel is clea..
