GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Beringia, Blackwater Draw, Hunter-Gatherer
11 Apr 2019
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New world civilizations and changing environments: from beringia to the inca. First colonization: domestication and environmental impacts on early states. Late glacial siberia and north america: polar and steppe vegetation and landscape, migration routes, and earliest sites. First colonization: glacial conditions prevailed across northern hemisphere, wisconsinan glaciation: major advance of north american ice sheets (mis 2, cordilleran. Importance of technological innovation like clothing: global movement of populations to northern latitudes for the first time. Ice free corridor- most popular: clovist first, assumes an ice free corridor from beringia (alaska) to southern canada and northern us. Earliest cultures and sites in the americas: north america: meadowcroft rock shelter (pennslyvania), buttermilk creek (texas), clovis (new. South america: monte verde (chile: based on projectile shape and style, earliest cultures and artifacts called "paleoindian, hunted megafauna like mastodons, clovis: first discovered and thought to be oldest. Major features of early projectile technology: bifacial reduction.
