ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sedentism, Fertile Crescent, Mortar And Pestle
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Colonization of australia by at least 40kya; watercraft. Nearby ochre burial of mungo man , same time period. Some debate as to when people first arrived in the americas. 15 to 13 kya; likely more than 1 migration. Beringia (landmass linking nw asia with alaska) Passage south by 14 kya ice free corridor . Famous for fluted-point technology known as (cid:173)clovis. Originally associated with big-game hunting, now believed they also took bison and caribou, fish and sea-mammals. Opportunistic and very mobile; settled in a diverse array of environments (for reasons such as salmon runs and other such environmental opportunities) 14,500 kya; may have been occupied as early as 31 kya. good preservation of bone and wooden artifacts; wooden houses covered with hides. 20 and 14 kya, we see the following changes: Some plant and animal species disappear (e. g. , megafauna in the americas) Many groups adapted by broadening their resource bases.
