GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Acoma Pueblo, Beringia, James Chatters
29 Sep 2016
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Tracing geographical genealogies is something of interest. This site may contain evidence of human occupancy 14,000-19,000 years bp. The belief was that humans arrived in north american 4000 ya. The bering land bridge (beringia) connects asia and north america. The land bridge theory is that people first migrated to the americas acrsoss the bridge has been the scientific consensus but remains controversial. Debate echoes into the present and into the telling of the historical geographies of. Crucial to place the land bridge theory alongside a variety of other origin stories. Image depicts the first people coming out of a clam shell to inhabit british columbia. Race is often linked to origin stories. In 1996 washington state college students find a skull and an arrowhead. Called the kennewick man or the ancient one (~9000+ years old) Archaeologist, james chatters, argued that the remains belonged to a caucasoid trapper/explorer who had difficulties with stone-age people during his travels.
