HIS 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Robert Bylot, Treaty 6, Measles
26 Feb 2016
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Timeline: major events in the early history of the first nations (p. 3-4): Mammal retaining stone weapon killed in new mexico . First settlers, homo sapiens that came during the last great ice age (ended 10 000 years ago) perhaps across a land bridge stretching between siberia and alaska. (no human form was developped on that continent). The 30 000 years or more of the human occupation of the north-american continent before. Europeans settlement is labelled prehistoric term fallen common usage misconceptions, because even if theres no written record before europeans settled the natives had oral traditin and other ways to record history (paint ). Evidence shows that other parts of the americas suggest habitation occurred before 9500-8000 bce. They were hunters and gatherers who lived in small units, but not in total isolation from neighbours. Evidence survives of trade and exchange of goods.
