General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: PLEISTOCENE MAN IN NORTH AMERICA -- Introduction -- 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.