ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Neolithic, Paleo-Indians, Plants And Animals
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Anthropology chapter 6 - human cultural evolution - 20,000 to 5,000 years ago. North american periods: palaeoindian: 14,000-9,000 ya, the period in which people rst arrived & settled, to the end of time when they were hunting large animals, archaic: 9,000-5,000 ya, on going foraging adaptations. 20,000-15,000 years ago: domestication of dogs, initial settlement & colonizing in what is now known as the americas, continued expansion & population growth. 15,000-10,000 years ago: transition to food production rather than food foraging, megafauna (mammoth & mastodon) hunting in na. 10,000-5,000 years ago: more people adopt food production, population growth, new forms of social & political organizations, civilization & writing emerge. Settling in america: occurred between ~20,000-15,000 years ago, indications that ancestry of contemporary indigenous people in the. Americas lies in asia: climate change removed barriers, allowing people to migrate, beringia: a large, ice-free land mass connecting north america and asia during the last ice age, possible routes to america: