ANTH 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Coastal Migration, Coprolite, Solutrean Hypothesis
5 Dec 2012
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Where is the new world: north and south america. Where were they from: alaska, siberia, beringia land bridge, pacific coastal migration, trans atlantic crossing. Clovis - archaeological evidence in development of 20 century paradigms. Hunters migrated down ice-free corridor between ice sheets. Idea supported by sites in great plains with clovis points as early as 13,000 years ago: geographical evidence suggests no ice-free corridor. Neena culture 14 kya in alaska: flaked and triangular and bone points, fluted and unfluted, fluted, attached to the spear. Humans, when arrived in north america, blitz most of the fauna and the end of the pliestocene. Change of environmental conditions during the last ice age many have also led to extinction of many north american species: mammoth, giant sloth, camel. Bison, other large herbivores not dramatically affected by hunting. Only 16% at olson-chubbuck, colorado have evidence of butchery. Why in fall: meat preserved through winter, spring babies, skins for warmth, migrating process.
