GEOG 2RC3 Lecture Notes - Ecumene, Louis Agassiz, James Hutton
15 Mar 2013
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Rising more than 100m by the end of the glacial period. Movement out of africa into europe, middle east. Land, people, regions, identity the peopling of the americas. Fact: thing certainly known to have occurred; what is true or existent. True: in accordance with fact or reality, not false of erroneous. Real: actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact. Migration major theme in human history, beginning 1. 5 to 2 million years ago. Native american oral history no story about coming from elsewhere. Most recent ice age wisconsin began 100,000 years ago. Global sea levels much lower during the ice age. 860,000sq km of late pleistocene coastal plain submerged. When end of the wisconsin ice age (10-12,000 years ago) How migration into alaska via beringia ( land bridge connecting asia to alaska) Subsequent dispersal via ice-free corridor (mackenzie river valley) into the interior of north america.
