HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Beringia, Kitigan Zibi, Quebec, Clovis, New Mexico
18 Dec 2016
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Three major themes for fall term: comparative colonial experiences of the major antecedent colonies, exploring changes arising as new waves of immigrants swamped numbers of earlier settlement groups. Evolving views and different interpretations of the past , both by historians and by the general public. (whose view it is we"re looking at) Manitoba community of red river & the british columbia / island of vancouver colonies. Historiography: how history has been written (all of history is someone else"s interpretation) New technology: pollen; c14-carbon dating; satellite photography, etc. (makes it easier to get exact dating) How our points of view interpret how we view the evidence. The bering strait land bridge was crossed approx. 11 thousand years ago, however radio carbon testing drives chronology back even further. Skulls found in brazil / columbia pre-date southern migration (ie. the tie it would"ve taken for them to travel across the bering strait and continue south to south america)
