This text contains short and concise papers that focus on the following themes: pre-Clovis archaeology; Clovis-era archaeology; Paleoamerican paleobiology; new approaches to the study of Paleoamericans; Paleoamericans and public policy; and new directions for Paleoamerican archaeology.

"Peopling of the Americas publication."

New perspectives on the first Americans : introductory remarks /Bradley Lepper and Robson Bonnichsen -- Middle- and late-Pleistocene archaeology of the Manix Basin, San Bernardino County, California / Fred E. Budinger, Jr. -- Current archaeological evidence of late-Pleistocene settlement of South America / Ruth Gruhn -- Quandary : the Clovis phenomenon, the first Americans, and the view from Patagonia / Laura L. Miotti -- Pre-Clovis occupation of southeastern Wisconsin / David F. Overstreet -- Clovis-era archaeology in northern New Hampshire : the Israel River complex / Richard A. Boisvert -- Lahontan chronology and early human occupation in the western Great Basin : a new look at old collections / Amy J. Dansie and Wm. Jerry Jerrems -- Florida Paleoindian points and knives / James S. Dunbar and C. Andrew Hemmings -- Clovis age in calendar years : 13,500-13,000 CALYBP / Stuart J. Fiedel -- Mastodons, mammoths, and humans in the North American mid-continent / Daniel C. Fisher -- Florida's early-Paleoindian bone and ivory tools / C. Andrew Hemmings, James S. Dunbar, and S. David Webb -- Clovis in the southwestern United States / Bruce B. Huckell -- Clovis and beyond : then and now / Kenneth B. Tankersley -- Lithic technology of the Little River Clovis Complex, Christian County, Kentucky / Carl Yahnig -- Paleoindian occupation in the southeastern United States / David G. Anderson -- Kennewick Man : a Paleoamerican skeleton from the northwestern U.S. / James C. Chatters -- Paleoamerican skeletal features surviving into the late Plains Archaic / George W. Gill and Carlos J. Jimenez -- Enigmatic origins of Paleoindians / Alice M. Haeussler -- Molecular anthropological view of the peopling of the Americas / Theodore G. Schurr -- Perishable fiber artifacts and the first Americans : new implications / J.M. Adovasio, D.C. Hyland, and O. Soffer -- Frame analysis : a fluted preform from Munsungun Lake, Maine / Kevin T. Goodrich and Robson Bonnichsen -- mtDNA identification of Native American remains : assessing a biological basis for establishing cultural affiliation / Frederick L. Briuer, Herb Fredrickson, and Emily Davis -- Rock art and the peopling of the New World / Alice M. Tratebas -- Role of geoarchaeology in the search for the first Americans / Michael R. Waters -- Delicate balance : the Society for American Archaeology and the development of a national repatriation policy / Keith W. Kintigh -- Public policy and prehistory / Alan L. Schneider -- Public policy, academic archaeology, and the first Americans / Bradley T. Lepper -- Public policy and Native Americans : how do we go from here? / Joe Watkins -- Search for the first Americans : perspectives and prospects / Alan L. Bryan -- Fundamentals in early-Paleoindian research for the future / Michael B. Collins.