Anthropology 176A Study Guide: The Peopling of North America I - Beringia and NE Siberia, Study notes of Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Download Anthropology 176A Study Guide: The Peopling of North America I - Beringia and NE Siberia and more Study notes Introduction to Cultural Anthropology in PDF only on Docsity! Anthropology 176A UCSC North American Archaeology Spring 2009 Study Guide: Lecture 3: The Peopling of North America I (W Beringia and NE Siberia) 4/3/09 I. People, Places, and Concepts Clovis Culture (11,200 BP, [13,000 BP cal.]) Blackwater Draw, NM (1932) Beringia (25,000-14,000 years ago) Paul Colinvaux Steve Young and Dale Guthrie North East Siberian Paleolithic (Western Beringia) A. Lake Baikal Region (West) Mal'ta (27,000-15,000 BP) (Gerasimov) B. Aldan River Basin (East) Dyuktai Culture (Mochanov)—microblades/microcores Dyuktai Cave (14,000-12,000 BP) C. Far Northeast Ushki Lake, Kamchatka Peninsula (10,800 BP) II. Study Questions: 1) Traditional models for the peopling of the Americas assume that the First Americans came over land, across the Bering Land Bridge at the end of the last ice age. How does our current understanding of the archaeology of western Beringia (Northeast Siberia) support or contest this traditional model? What holes, problems, or inconsistencies still plague this scenario? NOTE: Uncalibrated B.P. dates can roughly be compared with calibrated B.P. dates (in this time frame) by adding 2000 years. B.P. stands for “before present” and counts back from A.D. 1950. Uncalibrated BP dates are also sometimes referred to as “radiocarbon years.” Calibrated BP dates can be converted to calendar BC/AD dates by adding or subtracting 1950.