HIST 1301W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Beringia, Universal Windows Platform Apps, Plant Breeding
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Despite native am difference, indigenous bonded over colonization experience. Many colonists lived better in am than eu (more land, freedom, personal status) *ams avg height 3 inches taller than eus. X traditional story of uplift excludes too many people. British (eus), africans (large linguistic diversity), indians (named after. All human fossils found in am less than 15k years old. Beringia land mass only existed due to ice age. Advances in genetics support habitation in beringia for thousands of years. Changing environment and life styles ago) breeding of all time) Generally accepted pop north of mexico prior to contact is 2. 5-5m. Rise of semi permanent villages (3k-9k years ago) paleo-indians->archaic. Development of agriculture (occurs simultaneously in new and old world (5k-8k years. Abt 5. 5k years ago central mexico (maize squash beans peppers) Maize required selection of mutant forms of teosinte (most important plant nadir-low point of population. Arctic, subarctic, northwest, great plains, northeast, california, great basin, southwest,
