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Paleoindians and the Great Pleistocene Die-Off

Works Cited

Deloria, Vine. Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Downey, Roger. Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man. New York: Copernicus, 2000.

Krech, Shepard III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.

Martin, Paul S. “Prehistoric overkill,” in Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, eds. Paul S. Martin and Herbert E. Wright, Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 75–120.

Momaday, N. Scott. “Disturbing the Spirits,” New York Times, November 2, 1996.

Raymo, Chet. Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion. New York: Walker and Co., 1998.

Sturtevant, William C., gen. ed. Handbook of North American Indians. 20 vols. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution (for sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office), 1978– .

Thomas, David Hurst. Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

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