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Science 19 June 2009:
Vol. 324. no. 5934, p. 1518
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175691
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Archaeology:

Arguments over Early Arrivals

Tim Flannery

First Peoples in a New World Colonizing Ice Age America by David J. Meltzer University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009. 480 pp. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780520250529.

Writing for a broad, nonspecialist audience, Meltzer discusses both what we know about the early history of humans in the Americas and the often controversial research that has led to our current understanding of that topic.

The reviewer is at the Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 3800, Australia.

E-mail: Tim.Flannery{at}textpublishing.com.au

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