ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kebaran, Maglemosian Culture, Cooking Banana
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Glaciers start to melt, migration into the new world, 30,000 ya from. Northern asia across the land bridge into alaska, followed large herd animals, Second route into new world around pacific coast, 2 migration routes \/ Spread of upper paleolithc people: beringia land bridge. Ice sheets covered: western canada (corilleran, eastern canada & northern u. s. (laurentide, pacific coastal route. Moved along pacific coast from asia on boats. Collecters more depth to a site, fixing up shelters through seasons, middens- large garbage disposals, more storage, containers, permanent type rituals- cemeteries. Stay in camps for long periods of time. Cultural regionalization 3 different cultural traditions, hallmark characteristic beginning of holocene- regionality. Because of that we see a cultural regionalization, comes three lithic periods, Last glaciation nearly over: increase in global temperatures, glaciers receded, sea levels rose, beringia flooded, new game, new lakes & rivers, new edible plants, tundra replaced by deciduous forests. Characteristic meso/epipaleolithic tool: small, hard, geometric sharp flint blade.
