Into the Americas Feraterrae the Wild Land

Into the Americas: Feraterrae, the Wild Land

Corridor closed by 21, 000 -25, 000 ya Opened 12, 000 ya? Coastal glaciers retreat ~19, 000 ya Jce free by 15 000 ya Extent of continental ice sheet at glacial maximum

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

14, 300 ya 16, 000+ ya Topper (S. Carolina) 16, 000+ ya 14, 800 ya Earliest paleo-human sites in the Americas

Concept of Monte Verde in Chile 14, 800 years ago

Three major migrations into North America

Clovis Points

Lithic An Indigenous timeline for North America

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 onto the Great Plains

SE Cherokee & Chocktow- Southeast Natives

Navajo- Southwest

GB Ute- Great Basin

Plateau Indians

Kennewick Man

Methow Indian tribespeople about 1900

American Energy Slaves

3 Eagles and Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

Flight of the Nez Perce

Chief Seattle (Sealth)- Duwamish Tribe

Black Belly- Cheyenne