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Article: Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America

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Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America. Edited by RENEE B. WALKER AND BOYCE N. DRISKELL. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. xv + 328 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. $59.95 (Cloth).

Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America challenges the notion of a normative view of Paleoindian hunter-gatherers as wide-ranging (highly mobile) big-game hunters. Walker and Driskell acknowledge that others, including David Meltzer and Dena Dincauze, have been arguing for nearly two decades that most Paleoindian hunter-gatherers probably were broad-based foragers who principally relied on small game and plant foods for subsistence, opportunistically taking large game ...

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