Examines the prehistory of Minnesota and its native inhabitants through artifacts, evidence of human activity, and plant and animal remains. Explores the social, economic, and political systems of these native cultures. Includes maps and illustrations.

From the Publisher: More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the...

Covers the history of early man in America from the earliest known sites to approximately 1492 A.D.