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From
The Scout Report
10 April 2009
Volume 15, Number 14
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<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/clovis/>
What, some ask, was the "last extinction?" It's a fair query indeed, and it happens to be understood as the period approximately 13,000 years ago when large animals were killed off across the North American continent. The exact cause of this extinction remains unknown, but this engaging program offered as part of the long-running NOVA series on public television offers up one particularly interesting theory. On this site, visitors can watch a preview of the program, and then make their way through six interactive sections, including "The Extinction Debate" and "Stone Age Toolkit". In "The Extinction Debate" visitors will be introduced to the wide range of scientific theories that have been actively debated and discussed in regards to this extinction. Moving on, the "Stone Age Toolkit" allows users to play a lively matching game where they can learn about the role that ten different primitive artifacts played in the lives of humans thousands of years ago. The site is rounded out by a teacher's guide and a set of additional links and readings. [KMG]
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| Earliest Americans took two paths - Nature News (2009-01-08) |
| 1 - Dual origin for the first Americans - Current Biology (2009-01-08) |
| 2 - Why Did Humans Migrate to the Americas? - LiveScience (2009-01-23) |
13 March 2006 The Untold Saga of Early Man in America Time Magazine (3/7/06)
Then there was the breaking news about the controversial and hotly-debated "Kennewick Man".
reconstruction
by Jim Chatters and Thomas McClelland
"Who was the Kennewick Man?"
Anthropology in the News lists it as the major story of the month:
MSNBC ...
Did First Americans Come from Europe?: Archaeologist suggests prehistoric hunters from Spain sailed west (MSNBC 2/19/06) <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11451616/>
- look at the related sites at
Scientist traces ancient "kelp highway": Ancient seafarers may have grazed their way from Asia to Americas (MSNBC (2/19/06) <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11451754/>
BBC News - Footprints of ' first Americans ' They say the first Americans may have arrived by sea, rather than by foot.
5 Jul 2005
- Journals
- The Mammoth Trumpet -- for the
public and reports on all aspects of the peopling of the Americas
- Videos
- Last extinction
NOVA program HomeSite
(56 min., 2009, DVD 1842)
- "Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." -- WGBH/Nova website.
- Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism
Films
for the Humanities
(50 min., 2000, DVD TBD)
- Mystery of the First Americans
(60
min., 2000, VC 3965)
~ includes Kennewick
~ NOVA companion web site
- Scientific
American Frontiers: "Coming
to America" -- Alan
Alda
(60 min., 2004, DVD 145)
~ transcript
~ web
resources
- The
Search for Ancient Americans
(57 min., 1988, VC
1299)
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