HIST 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Radiocarbon Dating, Clovis Culture, Beringia
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Archaic period: the era described by archaeologists and anthropologists as roughly. Aztecs: a mesoamerican civilization and polity that collapsed in the early 16th century. The aztecs developed many agricultural techniques and administrative customs that influenced societies around the gulf of mexico. Before the common era (bce): this term, along with ce, align exactly with the. Christian dating system, dividing time approximately 2,000 years ago. Before the present era (bpe): a dating system based on the use of radiocarbon dating, which uses january 1, 1950, as its baseline. Bering land bridge: the land form, made mostly of land that was exposed by falling sea levels, that connected eurasia and north america between siberia and alaska. A possible route for human migration from asia to the. Beringia: the open plain of land and glaciers that once filled the current gap between. Siberia and alaska. buffalo jumps: sites on the plains associated with highly coordinated bison hunts conducted by aboriginal communities.
