ANTH 204 Lecture 15: Emergence of Agriculture
20 Sep 2016
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Mesolithic hunter gatherers in europe archaic hunter gatherers in north america. Holocene: geological epoch from 12 kya to present. Change in earth"s orbit glacial melting rise in sea level shift in ocean currents shift in atmospheric currents continued climate change. By middle holocene we begin to see modern environmental conditions. Today climates are much warmer than in the past. Environments changed in response to climate change: faunal extinctions, range shifts and body size reduction, human behavioral adaptations change. Large body herbivories go extinct during this climate change. The large body animals are replaced by smaller animals. Environmental changes caused much animals to die off and then shrink in size: large body bison bison antiques, small body bison bison bison (american bison) Human behavioral adaptations changes: clovis fluted, among the first real identifiable contrusts to show up in america, shows about around 14,000 years ago.
