ANTH 1220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bison Latifrons, Castoroides, Quaternary Extinction Event
19 May 2017
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12-10 000 bp similar to clovis smaller and better made points . Found all over north america, south of glaciers . After this, regional uniformity in style breaks down. Mammoth, mastodon, giant bison, giant beavers, giant ground sloth. Bison jumps bison driven over stream bed, fall in, injure, killed. Environment : glaciers melting faster, all environments moving north archaic period gathering. People living everywhere except the arctic (still covered in glaciers) woodland cultures . 1000 bc-0 ad begin to domesticate own foods corn, beans, squash villages appear social units grow larger tribe . Biological evidence for origins of new world peoples. People came to the new world several times . Inuit are more recent migrants to new world . Original migration is represented in north and south. 5 tya earliest states (civilizations) sw asia, n africa . What percentage of human existence are we dependent upon food production. 99. 9% hunter gatherers *******************: homo erectus (1. 7 mya)
