ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Short Chronology Timeline, Projectile Point, Maritime Archaic
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Preconditions for the initial colonization of the americas. Parent population in northeast asia: access to non-glaciated north america. In order to get somewhere, they would have needed either a landbridge (walking from siberia to. Sea levels today are much higher than during the ice age. During the ice age, there were blocks of ice allowing a lower sea level, having more landmasses visible. If travel was by via boat, there would have been a substantial during across the coast. Colonization: the effect of human colonization can be drastic, drastic effect, there are no incoming competitors for them to deal with, dumb animals are not used to having anyone kill them and eat them. But this creates the possibility for mass extinction. It could be potentially difficult to trace archaeologically. 1926: archaeologist found obvious human tools with projectile points, with 23 bison (extinct bison in. This became a type site for the folsom industry.
