Week 6 Flashcards
Coastal migration route
People might have entered further inland by coming down the coasts of Alaska and British Columbia (Canada) using boats or by walking the coastline
Ice-corridor route
people might have entered further inland when an ice-free corridor appeared in Canada during a warming trend
North Atlantic route
From Europe through the Atlantic Ocean via boats
* Also called the Solutrean Hypothesis
Evidence is cultural similarities to people from northeast Asia, as reflected in technology and DNA
Why finding charred bread at the Natufian site in Jordan is significant?
The Natufian culture existed around 12,000 to 9,800 years ago, making it one of the earliest known sedentary cultures.
The discovery of charred bread at these sites pushed back the evidence for bread-making by thousands of years.
It indicated that bread may have been made much earlier in human history than previously thought.
Maybe bread-making pushed them to agriculture
Explain the association between the appearance of beer and increasing social complexity
The production of beer is closely tied to the cultivation of cereal grains, particularly barley.
As humans transitioned from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled agricultural one, they began to cultivate grains for food.
: Beer, as an alcoholic beverage, has been used throughout history in social gatherings and religious or ceremonial rituals. Sharing and consuming beer together fostered community and social bonds. brewing beer, which helped foster social interactions and community gatherings. Beer became a symbol of hospitality, celebration, and social cohesion.
