First peoples in a new world

Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas, entering a world rich in plants and animals but still recovering from the Ice Age. David Meltzer delves into the world of these Ice Age Americans, highlighting recent scientific discoveries including the ancient genome revolution and human evolutionary and population history.

The book is written for a broad audience and can serve as a primary text in courses on North American Archaeology, Ice Age Environments, and Human evolution and prehistory.