HIS263Y5 Lecture : May 13.docx
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When historians are talking about it they use an approach Ethnohistory: focus of non european history, it uses a number of technics to get at the history, they use oral histories, archaeology, anthropology: field work, linguistics, ethnomusicology. The archaeology shows 10,000+ natives have been here, the debate on when the specific time is hard, typically 20-30,000 years. Overwhelming analysis of how they came was over the baring land bridge, from siberia, alaska, during the last ice age, water levels were lower than today, there was one continent. You could walk from siberia to north america, consensus for how it was populated. 12,000 years ago there was a huge glacier across alberta, quebec, hudson"s bay. If people were migrating they would have gone towards the south. 11,000 10,000 warming accelerated, glacier was significantly reduced, humans followed the glaciers north, so towards canada. Human populations followed the glacier north as it retreated.
