ANTH 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Paleo-Indians, Clovis Culture, Clovis Point
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The emergence of symbolic art in the upper paleolithic may be taken as direct archaeological evidence of language. During the upper paleolithic, peoples from asia also populated australia, new guinea, and some of the islands of western melanesia. The earliest humans and their cultures in the new world. On the basis of similarities in biological traits such as tooth forms and blood types, and on possible linguistic relationships, anthropologists agree that native americans originally came from asia. The traditional assumption is that they came to north america from siberia, walking across a land bridge (beringia) that is now under water (the bering strait) between. The ice sheets or glaciers that periodically covered most of the high latitudes of the world (cid:272)o(cid:374)tai(cid:374)ed so (cid:373)u(cid:272)h of the world"s water (the i(cid:272)e sheets were thousa(cid:374)ds of feet thick in some places) It appears that modern humans were in north america as early as 15,000 years ago.
