MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Coastal Migration, Staff God, List Of Fertility Deities
30 Nov 2016
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Mmw 11 lecture 18 the rest of the world. Berengia incubation model (bim: climate change. Able to cross over into the new world from siberia: climate changes again, things close off, and people are stuck in the new world, people crossed over 15,000 years ago, probably wrong. Coastal migration hypothesis (cmh: travelled by canoe into new world. Multiple wave hypothesis (mwh: 30,000-25,000 years ago came on foot, 15,000 years ago came by canoe, multiple genetic trees coming over. 15,000-30,000 bce humans migrate to the new world. Sometime from 30,000 years ago to 8,000 years ago moved from siberia to tip of south. New world cut off around 8,000 years ago: beginning of neolithic. Earliest evidence from central mexico, near mexico city. Staple crop of pretty much every new world people. Ideal of beauty: deform skulls to mimic corn. Long count calendar (maya: k"in, uinal, tun, k"atun, baktun piktun.
