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The Great Paleolithic War

'In The Great Paleolithic War', David J. Meltzer tells the story of a scientific quest that set off one of the longest-running feuds in the history of American anthropology, one so vicious at times that anthropologists were deliberately frightened away from investigating potential sites. Through his book, we come to understand how and why this controversy developed and stubbornly persisted for as long as it did; and how, in the process, it revolutionised American archaeology.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 680 pages

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