ANTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jasper
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Athabascan speaking from nw canada, originally from canada, 100-150 years before. Difficult place to depend on water and to provide subsistence. Occupied area for at least 1,00 or more than 40,000 years. Left very little archaeological record of their lives. For thousands of years the paleo people roamed, ,fished, hunted, foraged using the earliest kind of weapons (spear, rocks) Used stone tools, lithic materials flint chert jasper obsidian quartz. Other tools with personal items such as wood, plant, fibers, tusks. Using spear with stone points (from eastern siberia idea?) New tool changed to larger game hunters from what they would hunt before. Raised chipping flint to higher level--stone tool/projectile tools. Winter encampments with 12-15 families, 100 people in each. Live in natural formations: caves, small pole frame huts, stone/earthen ovens. 400 ad--bow and arrow created and spread throughout the americas and basket making. Transition of hunter/gatherer nomadic to semi permanent villages.
