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| The land bridge between Siberia and North American that existed during the Pleistocene. 1500 -3000km wide expanse. Thought to be the landbridge people used to get to America. pg. 198 |
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The ice free corridor was located in Beringia. This was the specific route early people would have to move south from Alaska to Canada. It had a mosiac of stepep and tundra between 30,000 and 14000 ya
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| Type of point. Standford and Bradley use clovis points as evidence for the sea route colonization of America. they argue that the clovis points in North America remble stone flaked biface points found from the Upper paleolitihic in Spain and France. Much evidence that this arguement does not hold up |
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| Younger Dryas Climate Interval |
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Began between 11000 and 10000 ya represented a return to the cooler and drier climate of the last glacial period. Thought to be the reason for the rise of agriculture because humans could no longer be sedentary. Need novel technology to survive. Pg. 241
Shrank the amount of acorns and cereal, cereals were thus domesticated very quickly |
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Lots of burials with shells and beads adorning the dead
Lots of ground stone tools that were very heavy. insinuate stability
Burial of the shamna woman shows social complexity
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The wall at Jericho suggests complex society changes. Even though they were hunter gatherers, looked for something more permanent.
Ain Mallaha stone huts - labor invesment |
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