ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paleo-Indians, Harpoon, Pastoralism
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Anta01 week 11 november 22, 2012. Holocene 10 kya: the period of warming (happening today, right now, has been warming from 20 thousand years. Archaic (north america: means the same thing as mesolithic . Neolithic revolution: how we think it happened, and how it led to agriculture today. Receding glaciers and raising sea levels, drowning coastlines. General environmental change, including the resolution of the seasons in northern climes. Movement of vegetation types increased diversity: allows plants to move to different lands (grasses, new trees), results in new species. Gradual warming of the earth for the past 10 000 y. Extinction of certain species, required a shift in subsistence strategies hunter- gatherers. Maintained big game hunting with focus on the last of the megafauna: bison. Bison bone bed at head-smashed-in near calgary. The great basin, west and southwest grasslands, very few if any bison. Small bands using temporary sites, highly mobile, true desert adaptation, based on water.
