ANTH 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Clovis Point, Sapa Inca, Spear-Thrower
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Spanish attack atahualpa the new sapa inca following a civil war basically while he"s on vacation at cajamarca, did so with enemies of the inca to support them, atahualpa kills. Huascar for fear he"ll ally with the spanish. Attack and ransom atahualpa, they pay it, then kill him anyway and ransack cusco and eventually take over the empire while smallpox decimates the population. After this a pan-indian identity begins to emerge which still exists. Pleistocene starts around 2 million years bp in north america glaciers form and advance toward the south, punctuated by interglacial periods with mild climates in. Mexico norther glacial advances are marked by pluvials. Pluvials: long periods of rain they were interspersed with dry periods. Relic beaches in the valley of mexico are the result of these. Wisconsin glaciation as 50-10,000 bp in which sea levels were extremely low allowing for passage through beringia so people could have walked between siberia and alaska.
