HIST 1126 Lecture Notes - North Atlantic Air Ferry Route In World War Ii, Radiocarbon Dating, Athabaskan Languages
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About 6000 years ago according to radiocarbon dating people living on prairies began building stone cairns to force buffalo to stampede over cliffs. The most commonly accepted theory for the origins of first peoples in the americas is that they crossed the land bridges that connected siberia to alaska during the last ice age. Some other scholars suggest that other migrants might well have sailed across the southern pacific or perhaps along the north atlantic route noting that europeans and asians had made watercrafts capable of these voyages. Scientists think that humans have common ancestors in africa and reject any notion that that the human species originated in the americas. Aboriginal people in northern north america lived in societies ranging from scrupulously egalitarian model of the athapaskan in the subarctic, were small communities who worked as units to obtain food equally dividing what was produced. Slaves were chattles of the chiefs and were treated cruelly.
