ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mastodon, Beringia, Projectile Point
3 May 2016
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Grains were a part of people"s diet long before 10,000 years ago. Cooking food has most likely been a cultural universal for around for 30,000 years. Palaeoindian refers to the period in which people first arrived and settled (in north. America), through to the end of the time in which they were hunting large animals such as mammoths and mastodons, about 9,000 years ago. Archaic describes the period from about 9,000 to 5,000 years ago in north america, which is characterized by an ongoing foraging adaptation. Paleolithic, mesolithic, and neolithic all refer to europe and elsewhere. Mesolithic correlates with climate change in europe (warming and deglaciation), advances in stone-tool technology, changes in diet, including more maritime resources. Neolithic correlates with a shift to farming in europe. Metalworking provides the basis for labeling the bronze age and iron age in europe. Natural copper began to be smelted about 6,000 years ago, but it was not widely used.
