ANTH 302 Lecture 19: Great Plains Horticulturaists
17 Nov 2016
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North american heartland between rockies and mississippi river (w-e) and saskatchenwan and. By 1800s more than 2 dozen plains tribes of horse using native americans. Using horses to efficiently round up bison. Buffalo bill cody"s wild west show led to stereotypes of plai(cid:374)s i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) lifeways that (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e the stereotype of native north america. Very continental climate with high seasonality, high change in temperature from different seasons. (varies north to south) Generally arid and windy (in rain shadow of rockies). Gets little rain from the west coast because it is blocked by the rockies. Gets rain from the mississippi and gulf coast. Rainfall highly localized and takes place in spring and summer seasons. Earliest clovis points are found in this area. Following recession of the ice sheets at the end of the pleistocene: Plains (short grass) grasslands formed as early as 13,000-12,500 cal bp in west. Prairie (tall grass( grasslands formed by about 11,500 9,000 cal bp in east.
