Early Native Americans

I-XIV -- SECTION ONE. Pleistocene Man in North America -- Introduction -- The Calico Mountains Site: Pleistocene Archaeology in the Mojave Desert, California -- The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World -- Wisconsin and Pre-Wisconsin Stone Industries of New York State and Related Tools from a Shop Site near Tula, Mexico -- The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts -- Fractured Cherts from Pleistocene Fossiliferous Beds at Medicine Hat, Alberta -- The California Coastal Region: Its Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climate and Function as an Ice Age Refugium -- SECTION TWO. Microblade Traditions and Migrations -- Introduction -- Early Migrations to America in the Light of a Study of the Dyuktai Paleolithic Culture in Northeast Asia -- Concerning the Cultural Contacts Between Asia and America in the Late Paleolithic -- Fluted Points at the Batza Téna Obsidian Source, Northwestern Interior Alaska -- Late Paleolithic Cultures in Alaska -- Microblades and Prehistory: Technological and Cultural Considerations for the North Pacific Coast -- SECTION THREE. Paleodemography -- Introduction -- An Ecological Interpretation of Variation in Mortality Within Three Prehistoric American Indian Populations From Dickson Mounds -- Patterns of Microscopic Bone Remodeling in Three Aboriginal American Populations -- Epigenetic Distance: A Study of Biological Variability in the Lower Illinois River Region -- A Sample of Northern North American Hunter-Gatherers and the Malthusian Thesis: An Explicitly Quantified Approach -- SECTION FOUR. Later Cultural Adaptations and Technological Studies -- Introduction -- Prehistoric Diet and Parasites in the Desert West of North America -- Prehistoric Basketry of Western North America and Mexico -- The Introduction, Use, and Technology of Fiber-Tempered Pottery in the Southeastern United States -- Coding and Cluster Analysis of Wisconsin Ceramics -- The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared -- An Interpretation of the Two-Climax Model of Illinois Prehistory -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

Résumé
Religion, Metaphysik und Theologie sind durch das neuzeitliche Denken in besonderer Weise herausgefordert. Die Beitrage des Bandes befassen sich von verschiedenen Standpunkten aus mit der Spannung, die in Moderne und Postmoderne zwischen diesen Disziplinen entsteht.