Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. James C. An anthropologist journeys back in time to the early history of North America to look at growing evidence about early visitors to these shores who predate the Native Americans and describes the discovery of a skeleton near Kennewick, Washington, that was 9, years old and whose physical characteristics were unlike those of American Indians.
Genres History Anthropology Nonfiction Archaeology. Hardcover First published June 7, About the author. Chatters 6 books. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 11 of 11 reviews. An excellent story of a scientist's battle to save a paleo-American for posterity.
He does a great and thorough job of explaining all the prevailing theories of how the Americas were populated in multiple migrations, some of them from the sea by the same forebears of the Polynesians. Always respectful of the Native Americans, including explaining their point of view, he nonetheless makes an amazingly strong case for Kennewick man being from an earlier migration than the Native American tribes.
An excellent and easy read, with scientific explanations very well done and easy to understand. Adds significantly to our understanding of the populating of the Americas. The Phoenix. It's interesting to find out about humans who arrived in the Americas before the modern native Americans. I had no idea. And based on the research, it shows that there is still so much we can learn about the earliest people.
When the skeleton was brought to Jim Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, Chatters first believed that the remains were those of a nineteenth-century pioneer. He was astonished when radiocarbon dating revealed the skeleton to be approximately 9, years old, making it one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America.
