Mercury Series; Archaeology 152
564 pages; 56 illustrations; 35 photographs; 14 in colour; 7 tables; 3 maps; 6.75x9.5;" paper
English The purpose of this volume and its two sister volumes is to provide a wide readership with information on the history of the native people prior to the dislocating incursions of Europeans into the territory now known as Canada. These books are based upon archaeological evidence as there are no pre-European written records and they describe the only history that exists for more than 12,000 years that the ancestors of the native people occupied Canada prior to its colonization by Europeans. This first volume begins with the spread of Ice Age hunters of a land mass called Beringia that once joined Asia and North America. After the migration, distinct cultures occupied all of Canada's major environmental zones.