ANTH 2122H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Haida Gwaii, Folsom Site, Bering Sea
15 Dec 2016
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Anth 2122 15/01/16 the paleo indian period and early archaic adaptation. A lot of debate still exists over when and how people entered the americas. Different types of evidence have been used to address this question: linguistic, biological, and archaeological. Linguistic evidence: supports a migration through asia and into the americas, through timing is debated joseph greenberg argues that there are three major linguistic families among indigenous americas: amerind, aleut-eskimo, and na-dene (amerind, was the most common) However, other linguistics contend that there are more categories than greenberg identified others also argue that the split between languages groups occurred much earlier, even before the peopling of the americas. Cranial morphology: difficult to generalise based on small sample earliest human remains only date to 11,000 to 8,000 years ago results are often sensationalized and misrepresented. Indigenous americas however, cranial features and skeletal traits can vary and be similar across populations genetic evidence has shown, of course, that the kennewick.
