ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Beringia, Kennewick Man, Upper Paleolithic
24 May 2016
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Beringia land bridge: northern asia (siberia) to alaska, open by 30,000 ya, ice sheets covered. Pacific coastal route: moved along pacific coast from asia on boats, 17-15,000 ya, h2o transport along pacific rim, diverse coastal ecosystems. Foragers (move around, less sedentary: travel in small groups, move camp frequently, little investment in shelters, storage facilities (don"t see permanent shelters or burials. Collectors: sedentary: less mobile (stay in one place, stay in camps for long periods of time, middens (accumulation of garbage, storage facilities, cemeteries, mounds. *hole mark of the beginning of holocene : cultural regionalization. Most important culture: we see the first evidence of the transition from hunter gathering, to the first low level food producers. Beringia flooded: tundra replaced by deciduous forests, new game, new lakes & rivers, new edible plants. Characteristic meso/epipaleolithic tool: small, hard, geometric sharp flint blade, increase in diversity of tools. Advance: mass produced, wider array of composite tools.
