ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Arctic Small Tool Tradition, Santa Barbara City College, Tim Ingold
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Traveled the islands of micronesia, eventually making its way to hawaii and new. Continuity in style on ceramics suggests that these people living of different. Teouma site, vanuatu site with ceramics. Cemetery one of the earliest burial cultures islands all came from the same culture. Head separated from bodies most of the time. 35,000 years ago potential origin in taiwan with some evidence. Linguistic evidence: at least three migrations (if not more) from northeast asia. Genetic: separate populations as early as 36,000 years ago. Much debate in the classification of languages. Arctic people did not move much; paleo-eskimo. The arctic small tool tradition is called so because it tends to make very small tools. The dorset are known for their art; they also hunted seals with harpoons; they developed oil lamp technology because they had access to seal oil; suspected that they developed the snow house. Morgan argued that society could be categorized into three groups: savagery, barbarism, and civilization.
