Secrets in the Sand: The Archaeology of Cape Cod

Description: When the Pilgrims first stepped upon the shores of Cape Cod Bay in the cold, forbidding November of 1620, they found not a New World but an old one - an ancient landscape that bore traces of 10,000 years of human endeavor. In this first detailed work to be written about Cape Cod's earliest settlers and what archaeologists have learned about them, Secrets in the Sand providers an illuminating portrait of these roamiing bands of hunter-gatherers whose ancestors had crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia two millennia earlier. The Cape Cod they discovered was a far different place than it is today - then a mere wooded foothill on a vast outwash plain of exposed continental shelf that stretched eastward to the sea. With a warming climate and the ensuing sea-level rise, these roving bands began to settle into base camps which later evolved into village communities whose inhabitants hunted, fished, cultivated the land, traded with populations to the west, and lived according to complex social and ritual systems. Here is a compelling piicture of these indigenous people who lived successfully on the Cape down through the centuries until the modern world came to claim ownership and effectively eradicate their native lifeways. Here, too, is a etailed look at the work and methodologies of present-day archaeologists in their enduring quest to explore and understand the mysteries of the past. Free shipping with USPS Media Mail in USA.

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Location: New York, New York

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