GEOG 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lake Simcoe, Wyandot People, Paleo-Indians
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Paleo-indians: considered to be the irst people to inhabit north american coninent. 11000 bp spread across the coninent; greatest concentraions along paciic coast. Hunted mammoths and mastodons whose exincions signiicantly impacted their survival: folsom: Unluted spear points to atach to spear shats. Change in huning tacics to hunt bufalo(plains) and caribou( great lakes. Paleo-indians and cultural areas: area: common set of natural condiions, common set of huning ishing and food gathering techniques, created more enduring social structures. Athapaskans( e. g dene, chipewyan, gwich"in) arrived some 10,000 years bp. North american climate ranged from tropical in mexico to arcic south of ice. Sheet: ~ 5000 years ago, domesicaion of plants and animals; socieies then expanded northward, ~3000 years ago, the three sisters (corn, beans and squash) supplemented diets of. Indians in what would become eastern us: climate blocked agricultural opportuniies north of great lakes/st. Lawrence lowlands: algonquian groups primarily hunted caribou for sustenance, would trade with sedentary.
