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Preface: An Upside-Down View
Rafael Suárez and Ciprian F. Ardelean
1. The Cave at the End of the World: Cueva del Medio and the Early Colonization of Southern South America
Fabiana M. Martin, Dominique Todisco, Joel Rodet, Francisco J. Prevosti, Manuel San Román, Flavia Morello, Charles Stern, and Luis A . Borrero
2. Lithics and Early Human Occupations at the Southern End of the Deseado Massif (Patagonia, Argentina)
Nora Viviana Franco and Lucas Vetrisano
3. A Systematic Strategy for Assessing the Early Surface Archaeological Record of Continental Aisén, Central Western Patagonia
César Méndez, Amalia Nuevo Delaunay, Omar Reyes, Antonio Maldonado, and Juan-Luis García
4. Early Human Occupation in the Southeastern Plains of South America
Rafael Suárez
5. Mobility and Human Dispersion during the Peopling of Northwest South America between the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene
Francisco Javier Aceituno-Bocanegra and Antonio Uriarte
6. The Clovis-Like and Fishtail Occupations of Southern Mexico and Central America: A Reappraisal
Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Patricia Pérez-Martínez, and Ximena Ulloa-Montemayor
7. Mexican Prehistory and Chiquihuite Cave (Northern Zacatecas): Studying Pleistocene Human Occupation as an Exercise of Skepticism
Ciprian F. Ardelean, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Juan I. Macías-Quintero, Jennifer Watling, and Mónica G. Ponce-González
8. Stone Tool Technology at the Gault Site: Exploring Technology, Patterns, and the Early Human Occupation of North America
Thomas J. Williams, Nancy Velchoff, Michael B. Collins, and Bruce A . Bradley
9. The End of an Era? Early Holocene Paleoindian Caribou Hunting in a Great Lakes Glacial Refugium
Ashley K. Lemke and John M. O’Shea
10. Late Pleistocene Occupation(s) in North America
J. M. Adovasio and David R . Pedler
11. Midwestern Paleoindians, Stone Tools, and Proboscidean Extinctions
Michael J. Shott
12. Where Tides of Genes Perpetual Ebb and Flow: What DNA Evidence Tells Us about the Peopling of the Americas
Theodore G. Schurr
13. Comments and Discussion
Tom D. Dillehay
Contributors
Index