HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eastern Hemisphere, Mississippian Culture, Neolithic Revolution
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Native american lecture: origins, asia, commonly called foragers aka hunter-gatherers, nomadic herders in central asia hunted deer, antelope, gather plants, fruits, berries, modern human dates back 100,000 years ago in africa. Anglo & saxons displaced kelts & created anglo saxon culture: ice ages, last ice age 25,000 years ago, caused beringia (land bridge between. Theory 1- traditionally argued people walked across, then migrated from north america to south america. Theory 2- people were displaced via boat bc oldest archaeological finds were on coastal areas: break in glaciers 12,000 years ago isolated people from asia & europe, disastrous because the people cut off weren"t apart of the. Squash: foragers vs europeans, gathered grass seed & planted them, grew for wheat, tended & harvested grain, europeans had a 5,000 year head start practicing agriculture. Also devoted much less time, effort, and resources to producing food: wheat is more nutritious than maize. Europeans became stronger people in general, more healthy.
