HIST 1015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Peacemaker Kurogane, Written Language, Hohokam
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America before columbus: the new world, only new to europeans, not new to native peoples/geography, migration, crossed a land bridge a. i. Evidence: people had dna similar to siberian dna: scholars disagree b. i. Find human remains nearby charred wood b. ii. 1. b. ii. 2. Some think they"re independent (humans died, then there was a fire) b. iii. Hadn"t been there as long as thought, debunking idea of people arriving before. Fourth: 8,000 10,000 years ago from siberia b. iv. Every living native americans" dna comes from one central asia migration b. iv. 2. People could have been wiped out before reproducing b. iv. 3. a. i. Had to adapt to large mammals (mastodon, mammoths) b. iv. 3. b. 1970"s: demographers do research and find that there might have been 100 mil. people living in the americas b. iv. 3. b. ii. Now: accepted that there were ~ 70 mil b. iv. 3. b. iii. Debunked idea that america = empty when europeans arrived b. iv. 3. b. iv. Ravaged by old world diseases: measles, smallpox, flu, typhoid b. iv. 3. b. iv. 2. Why no diseases in the new world? b. iv. 3. b. iv. 2. a.
