into the americas: feraterrae, the wild land. extent of continental ice sheet at glacial maximum...

Into the Americas: Feraterrae, the Wild Land

Extent of continental ice sheet at glacial maximum

Corridor closedby 21,000-25,000 ya

Opened 12,000 ya?Coastal glaciers

retreat ~19,000 yaJce free by 15 000 ya

Humans into Asia, Beringia, and North America

Early human migration- out of Africa 60,000 years ago

Post-glacial outwash- what the corridor would have looked like

Earliest paleo-human sites in the Americas

14,300 ya16,000+ ya

14,800 ya

Topper (S. Carolina)16,000+ ya

Concept of Monte Verde in Chile 14,800 years ago

Three major migrations into North America

Clovis Points

An Indigenous timeline for North America

Lithic

Watson Brake Site in Louisiana 6500 years old

Paleo-Archaic-Woodland-Mississippian Periods

Caddo/Spiro Pottery & Big Boy Pipe

Teosinte, the ancestor of corn

Pueblo Bonito

Cahokia

Some Adena (red) and Hopewell moundbuilder sites

Ancestor Worship, Social Hierarchy

What’s it all about?

10 Culture Areas

Dominant Language Families in 1500

Tribes & Language Groups

Northeast Native People

Iroquois Princess

CA

California

A few of the tribes in the San Francisco Bay Area

Ishi-Yana Indian

Quilliute & Tlingit- Northwest Indians

plains

The Plains

Blackfeet Indians

A white Crow tipi

Sioux moving camp- George Catlin

Migration ontothe Great Plains

SE

Cherokee & Chocktow- Southeast Natives

Navajo- Southwest

GB

Ute- Great Basin

Plateau

Plateau Indians

Kennewick Man

Methow Indian tribespeople about 1900

Energy Slaves

American

3 Eagles and Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

Flight of the Nez Perce

Chief Seattle (Sealth)- Duwamish Tribe

Black Belly- Cheyenne