The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America

A compact geographic and anthropological survey links the physical shape, climate, and vegetation of the Americas to the distribution, health, and cultural adaptations of indigenous peoples. It traces oceanic and atmospheric approaches that affected contact, compares Old and New World cultural correspondences, and explains continental formation and geographic provinces. Chapters treat plant cover, climatic variability as a driver of biological and social change, and the ways limited technologies and staple crops conditioned native responses to environment, yielding an integrated account of nature’s influence on aboriginal American life.