Gathering Fire: The Peopling of the Americas

"A 15,000-year conversation between evidentiary science and the unblinking memory of a continent."

Before the "conquest" and before the "frontier," there was the arrival. Gathering Fire is the definitive story of the first peoples to enter the Americas-a sequence of understanding that tracks the ingenious strategies and enduring values that allowed for a successful 15,000-year migration and adaptation to a new world.

In this modern work of scholarship, we move beyond the "whitewash" of tradit...