ANTHROP 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Westo, Bookbinding, Beringia
28 Dec 2016
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Stories told about their history told people who they were and reminded them that the place they lived was theirs, always had been, and it was a place they were meant to be. Scholars believe that the ancestors of american indians came to america from asia across the bering land bridge: periodically connected siberia and alaska during the last ice age. Clovis culture has been described as the first native american culture: 13,500 years ago, when giant animals at the time went extinct, the clovis sites disappeared but the people adapted and did not disappear. As groups grew in size, long term relations and claims to specific places emerged: new strategy was agriculture, started out as a supplement to hunting and gathering. When european explorers first entered and described native america it was primarily an agriculture world. Corn, beans and squash = revered by iroquois as the three sisters.
