Ancient Native Americans

San Francisco: W H Freeman & Co, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, xiv, 698 pages : illustrations (black and white), index, 1 st paperback edition, C0ONTENTS: Origins / Jesse D. Jennings,Alaska and the Northwest coast / Don E. Dumond Pioneer cultures of the sub-Arctic and the Arctic / Elmer Harp The far west / C. Melvin Aikens, The prehistoric plains / Waldo R. Wedel, The midlands and the northeastern United States / James B. Griffin, The southeast / Jon D. Muller, The southwest / William D. Lipe, Mesoamerica / T. Patrick Culbert, The South American paleo-Indians / Thomas F. Lynch, The evolution of Andean civilization / Michael E. Moseley, Lowland South America and the Antilles / Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans, Pre-Columbian transoceanic contacts / Stephen C. Jett. This volume therefore deals with New World archeology - "the evolution of the American Indian civilizations from the Arctic Circle to land's end in Patagonia over a span of 15,000 to 30,000 or even 40,000 years.".