Brennan, Louis A.

American dawn : a new model of American prehistory / By Louis A. Brennan. - 1st printing - New York, N.Y. : Macmillan Co., ©1970. - viii, 390 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Index p. 379-390

Contents: The subject is models -- Up the down corridor -- The accurate atom -- Don't raise the bridge-lower the river -- The ups and downs of Beringia -- Rocks of ages -- Fractured evidence -- Meridional America -- The users of the fruits -- The conservifructians and the cultifructians -- Rise and fall of the Shamans -- Sea change -- The future of the past.

Suggests that the first men were of the pebble tool chopper tradition who used stone projectile points on wide-ranging big hunts. Furthermore he believes they were the antecedents of the Asian immigrants previously thought to have been the primal tribe on the continent.


Indians--Origin
Paleo-Indians.


America--Antiquities.