ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clovis Point, Old Crow River, Hand Axe
17 Oct 2016
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Debates surround how peoples migrated into the new world. Beringia land bridge that connected asia and north america during times of low sea level. Ice-free corridor a potential (if viable) migration route running between ice sheets for people emerging from beringia. Coastal migration humans migrated into the americas along the west coast. Classic theory says that 1st new world peoples moved across beringia near the end of the pleistocene. Used the (cid:862)ice-free corridor(cid:863) to quickly move south past the ice sheets. Recent research casts doubt on whether ice-free corridor existed in time to serve as a migration route for the clovis people. Discovery at tsiigehtchic, northwest territories casts new light on ice-free corridor: Partial frozen carcass of a now extinct species of bison found rare specimen dated to approximately 12,000 years ago. Indicates that by this time the ice sheets had begun to retreat and the ice-free corridor was populated by bison.
