Colección privada de Pedro Krapovickas.

Contents. Preface. François Bordes. Introduction. Alan L. Bryan. Part I : general introductory papers. Early man research in the American hemisphere, José Luis Lorenzo. The American Paleolithic, George F. Carter. The legalistic approach to early man studies. Thoughts on the first peopling of America and Australia, Rainer Berger. Part II : Asia. The paleolithic of China, Jean Aigner. Lithic Assemblages from the early and middle upper pleistocene formations in Japan, Fumiko Ikawa-Smith. Stratigraphy and absolute chronology of the paleolithic of northeast Asia, Iuri A. Mochanov. Ancestors of paleo-indians and proto-eskimo-aleuts in the paleolithic of Kamchatka, N. N. Dikov. On the migrations of ancient man from Asia to America in the pleistocene epoch, Anatoli P. Derevianko. Prt III : North America. Dry creek: a late pleistocene human occupation in central Alaska, William Roger Powers and Thomas D. Hamilton. Early man in northern Yukon territory: perspectives as of 1977, Richard E. Morlan. Plesitocene Archaeology in eastern Beringia, W. N. Irving. Critical arguments for pleistocene artifacts from the old crow basin, Yukon: a preliminary statement, Robson Bonnichsen. The feasibility of the northwest coast as a migration route for early man, Knut R. Fladmark. Early man at owl cave : current investigations at the wasden site, eastern snake river plain, Idaho, Susanne J. Miller and Wakefield Dort, Jr. Meadowcroft rockshelter, J.M. Adovasio, J.D. Gunn, J. Donahue, R. Stuckenrath, J. Guilday and K. Lord. Surface evidence of early man in arid lands, Brigham Arnold. Associations of people and a rancholabrean fauna at china lake, California, Emma Lou Davis. The calico mountains archaeological site, Ruth Dee Simpson. Part IV : Central America. Tlapacoya: a late pleistocene site in central México, Lorena Mirambell. The geology of the el bosque archaeological site, Nicaragua, William D. Page. A note on excavations at el bosque, Nicaragua, in 1975. The occurrence in Panama of two types of paleo-indian projectile points, Junius Bird and Richard Cooke. Part V : South America. Some observations on the otavalo skeleton from imbabura province, Ecuador, David M. Davies. Early man on the peruvian north coast, early maritime exploitation and the pleistocene and holocene environment, James B. Richardson. Paiján in early andean prehistory: the moche valley evidence, Paul P. Ossa. Recent excavations at lauricocha (central andes) and los toldos (patagonia), Augusto Cardich. New perspectives on early man in southweastern rio grande do sul, Brazil, Miguel Bombin and Alan L. Bryan. An early stratified sequence near rio claro, east central sao paulo state, Brazil, Alan L. Bryan an Maria C. de M.C. Beltrao. Part IV : Synthesis. An overview of paleo-american prehistory from circum-pacific perspective, Alan L. Bryan.