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INTRODUCTION to the PARADIGM PROJECT CLASS ROOM FORMAT AAPS January 2009. Welcome! Introduction to AAPS Presentations “Many Peoples from Many Places”. Originally Presented at the Ancient Artifact Preservation Society (AAPS) October 24, 2008 Marquette, MI.
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INTRODUCTION to the PARADIGM PROJECT CLASS ROOM FORMAT AAPS January 2009
Welcome!Introduction to AAPS Presentations“Many Peoples from Many Places” Originally Presented at the Ancient Artifact Preservation Society (AAPS) October 24, 2008 Marquette, MI This Module Prepared by: Karl Hoenke Born & Raised in Michigan BS ChE, Michigan State ’68 Retired from Chevron June ’06 Closet Anthropologist
Available AAPS Learning Modules • OCEAN HIGHWAYS • KENNEWICK MAN • SHAN HAI JING • MAPS to AMERICA • COPPER TRAIL • ADENA SCRIPT • MORE CULTURES • Red Paint People • Woden-Lithi • Abu Ba Kari • by Jeff Bennett • by Rick Ozman • by Karl Hoenke • by Jay Wakefield • by Larry Stroud • by Ida Jane Gallagher • by Dr. Myron Paine Note: Purple Items in this Presentation will be covered in depth in the Modules listed above.
Ancient Artifact Preservation Society AAPS documents & disseminates evidence of contact between ancient America & Europe or Asia from 11,000 to 600 years ago (ya) AAPS shows that many people came to ancient America in many boats from many places. Goal is for this knowledge to be accepted into mainstream high school programs
Successful Movement of Peoples Across Water is Ancient Australia was colonized by sea40,000 to 50,000 years ago (ya) Wallace Strait 60 milesover open ocean. Boats needed.
Paradigm: Ice Free CorridorOpened c 11,500 years ago. Corridor Enabled First Occupants: Clovis Culture Clovis (11,000 ya)
Evidence Confirms Americas Populated c. 30,000 to 18,000 ya---Must Have Been By Sea Maximum Ice Sheet 18-14,000 years ago Meadowcroft (15-13,000 ya) Japan Current Route Cactus Hill (15-13,000 ya) Clovis (11,000 ya) Topper Site (19-16,000 ya)
Hypothesis with Strong Evidence:Comet Melts Glaciers, Kills Megafauna 13,000 years ago Japan Current Route
Topper Site, South Carolina (19-16 KYA, to 50 KYA?) 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PASSAGE THROUGHGLACIERS Many Sites (Meadowcroft, Cactus Hill, Monte Verde …) CLOVIS CULTURE (13.0-12.8 KYA) Comet strikes N.A. Ice Sheet North America treated as isolated, despite flourishing indigenous population and evidence of contact. School textbooks deny any contact for 10,000 years! Timeline KYA = Thousand years ago Today
OCEAN HIGHWAYS 11 10 Indian Ocean trading 9 Polynesians Leave Taiwan (5.7 kya) 8 7 Egyptians import cedars & obelisks (5.2 kya) 6 5 Fengtien jade trade Taiwan to Asia 4 Uluburun ship sinks with 10 tonsof copper (3 kya) 3 2 1 Timeline KYA = Thousand years ago Today
Events in Europe Events in America 11 Folsom Culture 10 Plainview Culture 9 Collapse of Greek, Hittite, Egyptian, Levant cultures (3,200 ya) 8 Copper TrailLake Superiorto the world(7.5-3.2 kya) 7 6 5 Greek, Persian, RomanNavies, Trading 4 _________ 3 Bronze age ends!! 2 L’Anse Aux Meadows 1 Timeline KYA = Thousand years ago Columbus Today
Visitors in America 11 Kennewick Man 10 9 8 Red Paint Culture Copper Trail 7 6 Stone Map Culture 5 Chinese Explore 4 Norse King Woden-Lithi Moundbuilders: Adena, Hopewell & Mississippian 3 2 Chinese Explore African (Olmec) 1 Abu Ba Kari Timeline KYA = Thousand years ago Today
How Post Ice-Age PeoplesReached the Americas Land Route through glaciers?? NORTHERN Land & Sea Routes fromEurope Coastal Route always Available SOUTHERNSea Route from Europe& Africa Polynesian Route