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Global Ecological Zones (FAO)

Global Ecological Zones (FAO). Ecological Zones of North America. Migration of Hominids Out of Africa. Possible migration routes into North America ( Joe LeMonnier with Lynda D'Amico, Archaeology 52:6 [1999]).

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Global Ecological Zones (FAO)

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  1. Global Ecological Zones(FAO)

  2. Ecological Zones of North America

  3. Migration of Hominids Out of Africa

  4. Possible migration routes into North America(Joe LeMonnier with Lynda D'Amico, Archaeology 52:6 [1999])

  5. What do we know about pre-Columbian (i.e. pre-Christopher Columbus) Indian impacts on the land?

  6. Buffalo Jump

  7. Impacts: Fire George Caitlin, Prairie Meadows Burning, 1861/1869(National Gallery of Art)

  8. Nez Perce woman with camas bulbs(NPS, Nez Perce Historical Park)

  9. The corn revolution in North America

  10. Bernal Diaz del Castillo on Tenochtitlan (from The Conquest of New Spain, 1520): “When we saw so many cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land we were amazed and said that it was like the enchantments...on account of the great towers and cues and buildings rising from the water, and all built of masonry. And some of our soldiers even asked whether the things that we saw were not a dream? ...I do not know how to describe it, seeing things as we did that had never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about.”

  11. Conclusion: • --North America < 1492 was not “pristine” • -human impacts on the landscape were widespread; in some areas, they were intense • (three C’s: Conflagrations, Corn, Cahokia) • -impacts were likely both positive and negative to pre-Columbian societies

  12. A further historical question: • If North American landscape so obviously affected by humans, then why does the widespread assumption that it was pristine arise?

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