ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Beringia, Paleoneurobiology, Olfactory Bulb
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Why move: population increase, disappearance of food resources, increased competition for food, climate deterioration. Sea levels were lower australia, new guinea, and tasmania were all connected: you could walk between them. Eventually, australia was out of site, had to use boats to get there, but no evidence has been found. Lake mungo: 40 kya, modern features: except brow ridges and face size, first evidence of cremation, first evidence of using red ochre, island of flores. Island was covered with a lush forest, used lumber to roll out statues, eventually cut down all the trees, ruined all their resources, went extinct. Thought that east asia and native americans could be related due to similarities: shover shaped incisors, type o blood, 95% share on of four haplogroups. Migration from east asia: icy land bridge (beringia) between russia and alaska 50 kya, melted just enough for people to cross around 15 kya, 13 kya people migrated.
