ANT 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Homo Erectus, Megafaunal Wolf, Maya Civilization
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Chapter 14: lessons from the past, lessons for the future. There are currently 6. 7 billion human beings living on earth. Humans have been on the scene for between 200. 000 and 400. 000 years. Homo sapiens is one of approximately 1. 4 million living species currently known to science; our immediate predecessor, homo erectus, existed for over 1. 5 million years. Around 15. 000 ya, some human groups began to settle down and abandon their nomadic lifestyles. Exposure to infectious disease was one of the earliest cracks in the harmonious relationship between humans and cultural innovation. Only about 1/5th of the earth"s original forests remain intact today. Most highly prized wood lebanese cedar which was cut and shipped throughout the eastern mediterranean (deforestation was so complete that only small patches of trees exist today) The collapse of the maya civilization of southern mexico, honduras, el salvador, and.
