ANTH 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnography, Neolithic Revolution, Solutrean
21 Nov 2017
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Anthro 7 middle and upper palaeolithic outside europe. Asia is less well known: movement into siberia 42,000 ya, northeast siberia 30,000 ya, sets stage for migration to new world. Japan occupied for first time: first wave around 35,000 ya, second wave ca. Australia. new guinea: 50,000 ya by water. Peopling of the americas paleoindican period (14 to 9 kya) Routes of migration: coastal migration - no site older than 12kya. First american: multiple migrations from asia. Dna data: all native americans share a unique dna segment - this indicates that they are closely related to each other. Oral history and the peopling of the americas: similarities b/w origin myths and routes/climate. Monday, november 6, 2017: megafauna, technology, warming periods, low population density. End of upper paleolithic: majority of the world was colonized. Middle east, europe, africa may have been quite densely populated: milder climate. Marked changes in ecology/plants: decline/extinction of large mammals (megafauna, environmental uncertainty led to new adaptive behaviours.
