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American Dawn: a New Model of American Prehistory by Louis A. Brennan.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover: 390 pages. Publisher: The Macmillan Company; (1970). Who was the first American man and where did he come from? How long ago did he arrive…and how did he live? At last we are able to piece together the “American Dawn” in all its engrossing complexity – a story that completely contradicts the beliefs so widely held by archaeologists as little as ten years ago. Louis A. Brennan has accomplished a complete survey of American prehistory based on radical new evidence obtained in the last decade, and the result is as surprising as it is compelling, witty, and factual. Comparing yesterday’s archaeological theses with today’s model of American prehistory, the author constructs a remarkable picture of the first American man and the first American community. How did he look, act, exist? What tools did he use, what food did he eat, what clothes did he wear? How did he communicate? How, in fact, did American civilization develop? Now for the first time these questions can be answered. Thanks to recent spectacular advances in dating techniques (carbon 14 and other methods explained in the text), we are able to picture America’s earliest settlers in their natural habitat and lifestyle.

Brennan traces the first Americans back to the very beginnings of man, in Olduvai Gorge, East Africa, giving cohesive and wide-ranging commentary on the revolutionary discoveries of eminent archaeologists (such as Leakey and Dart in Africa) and the new world-picture that has evolved over the past decade. But the reader, too, is an explorer, learning how much can be revealed from a clam shell in Croton, New York; from an arrowhead in New Mexico; or from a tree in California. He discovers too the question of environmental determinism, the role played by climate and surroundings in the regional development of American man. And he returns to his beginnings, identity, and primitive traditions with a reawakened knowledge of this new world, his home.

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PUBLISHER REVIEW:

REVIEW: Archaeological findings of the past decade draw a provocative picture of the first American man & his society.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEW:

No one can walk away from this book without agreeing that the Archaic Period of the Americas was on of the most extraordinary cultural epochs in the history of the world and that “American Dawn” is one of the most fascinating stories ever told.

READER REVIEWS:

REVIEW: A well-written study of the first American man and early society. Since participating in a tour with “Jungle Tour Acapulco” I have revisited some sources on this subject, including American Dawn by Louis A. Brennan. Any doubt that early Americans came to this continent any time before 14,000 BP or even 28,000 BP or even 100,000 BP must be dispelled through the simple act of observing the present inhabitants of the Coyuca Lagoon.

REVIEW: This Book covers all of American prehistory comparing what was thought earlier to what was discovered in the second half of the 20th century. It is witty, factual, a great resource, and fun as well as engrossing to read.

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