ANTH 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Santa Barbara Channel, Hokan Languages, Indigenous Peoples Of California
17 May 2020
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The earliest peoples spoke hokan, yukian, and chumash languages, prior to 5,000 years ago. Penutian-speaking people began migrating into california, settling first in the sacramento delta region, sometime around 5,000 years ago. People speaking algic and na-dene languages expanded into northwestern california within the last 2,000 years. People speaking uto-aztecan languages began expanding into southern california about 3,000 years ago. Linguistic prehistory proposals such as these are very speculative. The ones in norcal share a lot of the same culture, but they have. Native california population at the time of contact with the. Population density in parts of california were as high as the densest populations anywhere else in north america. Rivers, lakes, large bodies of water were found where population was denser. Access to aquatic food resources was an important determinant of high population density. Access to abundant and diverse terrestrial food resources also was important. Population density was highest in the sacramento delta and along the.
