ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sedentism, Coevolution, Gigantism
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Remember features of species and add photo to remind. Cumulative will be based mainly on new info. The holecene- 10,000ya: general warming of the worlds climate, receding glaciers and raising sea levels, drowning coastlines. Glacial maximum we see world warming up (global warming: general environmental change, including resolution of seasons in northern climates, movement of vegetation types increased diversity, alpine forests going northward, then arboreal, then grasslands. Marine isotope stages: gradual warming of the earth for the past 10,000 y. Plain hunters: from alaska to the gulf of mexico, the great bison belt. Lec 12 nov 27: maintained big game hunting with focus on the last of the megafauna: bison, bison bone bed at head-smashed-in near calgary, a continuation of the paleoindian culture. Inuits and aleuts: relatively recent migration into north america eventually reaching greenland by 2000 bc, range of artefact types, including umiaks, kayaks, and various harpoon technologies. Lived by sea mammal exploitation mainly whales and seals.
