Patagonia: Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth

by Colin McEwan

Book Overview

Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--"the uttermost end of the earth." Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story.

The book describes how these intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601623
• ISBN13: 9780691601625
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"