Chapter 7 Flashcards
Megafauna - what happened to them
Large mammalian extinction. DNA - Due to environmental stress - climate change. Humans became better hunters of endangered species.
Berengia - Beringia, Bering Land Bridge
Vast land bridge between - Asia to N America
Stemmed points
Deborah L Friedkin - Texas - projectile points made from an elongated flake or blade with slight retouch on the proximal end to shape an acute tip and on the distal end to make a stem, which connects to a shaft.
Clovis
Fluted point type of the Paleoindians. Large, laurel-leaf-shaped stone blades exhibiting a channel or “flute” (as in a fluted column) on both faces to aid in hafting the stone point onto a wooden shaft. Clovis points date from about 13,200 to 11,900 years ago (compare to Folsom).
Cordilleran Ice sheet
major deglaciation about 14500 years ago, originated in rocky mountains
Denali Complex
Denali Complex - Denali Complex: A lithic technology seen in the Arctic consisting of wedge-shaped cores, microblades, bifacial knives, and burins. Dating to about 10,000 years ago.
Fluted Point
Fluted point- Fluted Point: Projectile points made by Paleoindians in the New World between about 13,200 and 10,000 B.P. The points exhibit a distinctive channel or “flute” (as in the flutes in a fluted column) on both faces.
Folsom
Folsom - Folsom: Fluted point type of the Paleoindians. Generally smaller than Clovis points, Folsom points are later in time than Clovis, dating to after 11,000 B.P. Folsom points are fluted, with the channels commonly extending nearly the entire length of the point (compare to Clovis).
Ice Free Corridor
Ice-free corridor - warmer periods connection between leurentide and cordillera broke apart, cant go through as soon as ice melted, no vegetation or animal life
Lapita pottery -Lapita
Pottery style known from the inhabitated Pacific islands
The decorated ceramics found in these sites have a characteristic style of decoration known as ‘Lapita’ (after the site at which these ceramics were first recorded, the Lapita site on New Caledonia) and also contain a range of artifacts manufactured from shell and stone, plain pottery and faunal remains.
Laurentide Ice sheet -
Laurentide Ice sheet - continental glacier, originated in north central canada, at its peak covered much of northern part of north America
Laurentide Ice Sheet, principal glacial cover of North America during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). At its maximum extent it spread as far south as latitude 37° N and covered an area of more than 13,000,000 square km (5,000,000 square miles).
Laurentide Ice sheet - continental glacier, originated in north central canada, at its peak covered much of northern part of north America
Laurentide Ice Sheet, principal glacial cover of North America during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). At its maximum extent it spread as far south as latitude 37° N and covered an area of more than 13,000,000 square km (5,000,000 square miles).
Melanesia
Melanesia - Melanesia: Islands located north of New Guinea in the western Pacific. Black islands of new guinea and smaller islands solomon bismarck archipelago santa cruz new caledonia vanuatu fiji
‘The island world of Melanesia—ranging from New Guinea and the Bismarcks through the Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia—is characterised more than anything by its boundless diversity in geography, language and culture. The deep historical roots of this diversity are only beginning to be uncovered by archaeological investigations, but as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, the exciting discoveries being made across this region are opening windows to our understanding of the historical processes that contributed to such remarkably varied cultures. Archaeologies of Island Melanesia offers a sampling of some of the recent and ongoing research that spans such topics as landscape, exchange systems, culture contact and archaeological practice, authored by some of the leading scholars in Oceanic archaeology.’
Micronesia
Micronesia - Micronesia: Small islands in the western Pacific, east of New Guinea. Small islands north of melanesia
Nan Madol is an archaeological site adjacent to the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei, now part of the Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean.
australia
Polynesia
Polynesia - Polynesia: Islands of the central and eastern Pacific. Polynesian islands are volcanic in origin.
Through their excavations and analyses of artifacts and other recovered materials, archaeologists were able to develop a model of Polynesian settlement that demonstrated the eastward movement into the Pacific of ancestral Polynesians, located the “true” homeland of the Polynesians on the western edge of Polynesia
Microblade
Microblade - Microblade: Very small stone blade, often with a very sharp cutting edge. Microblades often were set in groups into wooden, bone, or antler handles.
