EAS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ground Sloth, Beringia, Iroquois
16 Oct 2017
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Manoy different stories, many varieties within each. Haudenosaunee creation story : sky woman came to this planet and found it covered. Other stories recount origin of indigenous nations with water. Why the interest in dates/ origins ? continent. When,how fast, under what condition can hunter-gathers colonize a rich, empty. Interest in biological, population history of indigenous people. Interest in the speed with which the indigenous americans domesticated plants. Interest in speed of transition from hunter-gather to hierarchical city-societies. Interest in questions related sustainable societies, rise and fall of civilization. What is today canada was almost entirely covered by ice. Fossil bones from archaic human ancestors are absent in americas. From about 18,000 years ago until about 10,000 years ago climate was warming. About 12,000 years ago ice-free corridor oppened alon eastern flanks of the rocky. Some archaeological sites have been dated as early as 50,00 years before present but. All other sites indicates human presence coincided .
