ANT100Y1 Lecture : new ideas, new worlds

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Christopher Watts

Document Summary

Colonization of australia by at least 40kya, de nitely with use of watercraft. Evidence of human settlement between 37 and 26 kya; shell middens and campsites. Some debate as to when people 1st arrived in the americas. Beringia (landmass linking ne asia with alaska) Originally associated with big game hunting, no w believed they also took bison and caribou, sh, sea-mammals. Opportunistic and very mobile; settled in a diverse array of environments. D nitely occupied by 14kya; may have been occupied as early as 31kya. Good preservation of bone and wooden artifacts; wooden houses covered with hides. 20 and 14 kya, we see the following changes; Many groups adapted by broadening their resource bases. Increased use of sh, shell sh, small mammals, seeds and nuts. Later, people began to intensify their exploitation of certain resources. Example, 8000bc in the near east (south west asia) Result: populations increased in size, greater degrees of sedentism.