Discovering Man's Past in the Americas

📗 Fatigue overtakes the tiny band of nomadic hunters. Through the long Arctic day they have followed a herd of caribou across the swampdotted landscape, hoping to single out and kill a weak animal. As the pale sun dips briefly below the horizon, they rest, huddling together for warmth. Tomorrow they will pick up their stone tools and weapons —virtually their only possessions — and resume the trek after game. Unknowingly, they are entering the Americas, crossing a great land bridge from Siberia. Their descendants will help people a new land. With the beginning and spread of agriculture, life will grow more settled, and consequently more complex. Discovering Man's Past in the Americas chronicles human development in the Western Hemisphere from Ice Age wanderers to builders of mighty empires that astounded 16th - century Spanish conquistadors. The setting for this absorbing story reaches from Alaska to the tip of South America. With authors George and Gene Stuart and their four children you journey to sites where students patiently brush the dust of millenniums from the bones of mammoths at an ancient hunting camp; you stroll a deserted plaza in the moonlight, and hear echoes answer your call like voices from the past. You peer over the shoulders of archeologists as they glean information from vine-covered temples, dusty caves, burial mounds, and heaps of rubbish — then turn to computers for help in filling in the details of a picture from the past. Dazzling works of art in ...