Argues that the Solutrean culture of coastal Spain and the European Atlantic Shelf was the ancestral industry to the North American Clovis industry.
Brixham Cave's revelations prompted another look at the long-standing claims of Jacques Boucher de Perthes, who for decades had been collecting stone tools and Pleistocene fossils in the Somme Valley of northwest France.
In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole.
This is a fascinating, original book for anyone interested in history, climate, or the new subject of how they interact.
C'mon, Robert, James. Let's go. Margaret knew it was pointless to try to stop them. ... Most, however, seemed to be gathered around the first mate near the bow, where the hull began to taper in. They couldn't hear what he was saying.
... trying to run with Sam Tulley across the sidewalkless Hart Bridge, a hundred feet above the St. Johns River in the dark and fog of a late October morning, Pauline had the realization that the terror was actually improving her pace.
Alec Wilkinson uses the explorer’s papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how the late 19th century’s spirit of exploration and scientific discovery drove over 1,000 explorers ...
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In The Settlement of the American Continents, edited by C. Michael Barton, Geoffrey A. Clark, David R. Yesner, and Georges A. Pearson, pp. 173-176. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. MacDonald, George F. 1985.
A Cold Welcome tells the story of this crucial period, taking us from Europe’s earliest expeditions in unfamiliar landscapes to the perilous first winters in Quebec and Jamestown.
In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.