AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pueblo Bonito, Mesoamerica, Histology
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Chapter 1 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Histography- the study of the school of thought. Migration over the bering straights after ice age where the water level was very low. Support: fossils of horses and camels in the new world. Genetic connection between the asians in the american indians. Land bridge theory and possibly island hopping theory. Native america mythologies- advocate that they themselves originated here, they did not migrate from asia. It could be proved by the absence of type b blood. Most commonly now we see a blending of these 2 theories, a mixture of island hopping and land crossing. (cid:1) (cid:1) Early settlements: domestication leads to larger more complex population, division of labor. Domestication of plants probably discovered by women. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) North american tribe: relatively low numbers of population. Between the time of the first contact and recording, diseases destroyed the american indian population.
