AMH 2010 Midterm: Exam I review
Document Summary
Bering strait: land bride that connected siberia to. Paleo-indians: 12000 bce to 9000 bce, hunters for large game (mammoths, homogenous group: not very diverse, people that moved to north american from the bridge. Archaic indians: 8000 bce to 1000 bce, 8000 bce extinction of animals, 1000 bce: neolithic revolution, most large game animals are no longer existent because of past. Paleo-indian hunters: dawn of agriculture- farmed instead of hunting large game, 3000 bce: rise of the mexican agriculture, corn. Pacific coast culture: most diverse and heavily populated, food source: fish, permanent culture, first to build multiple family cedar homes, arts: wood carvings and totem poles. Great basin culture: mainly gatherers, hunted small game, nomadic. Great plains culture: mainly hunters, nomadic, food source: bison and buffalo. Invented the bow and arrow: better survival rates. Southwestern culture: mainly gatherers, hunted small game, nomadic permanent, due to agriculture, neolithic revolution, masters of agriculture.
