ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Paleo-Indians, Latrine, Megafauna
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Professor: dewar receding glaciers, drowning coastlines and rising sea levels increased vegetation diversity. 10,000 years ago, moved into a warming period, the holocene. Mega fauna dies off, humans main source of food introduction of new species causes a shift in strategy and a development of localized cultures. 3 strategies: opportunist eat anything and everything, narrowed diet focus more energy on one or two species, became sedentary based on a bountiful food source. In europe this is the mesolithic period but in american it is the. Archaic period: plains hunters- from alaska to the gulf of mexico, bison hunting by driving them off cliffs, continuation of the paleo- Indian: the deseret west- grass seeds became a primary source of food, baskets and grinding stones, lower grade food sources, eastern north america heavily forest area, with small mammals, became very complex and sedentary.
