Connecting the Dots: Coastlines, Crescents, the Pacific Flyway, and the Peopling of the Americas
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- The Museum of Natural and Cultural History (MNCH) at the University of Oregon launched its annual Archaeology Lecture Series on Friday, Oct. 5 2012.
Jon Erlandson, MNCH executive director, kicked off the series. His illustrated lecture "Connecting the Dots: Coastlines, Crescents, the Pacific Flyway, and the Peopling of the Americas" addressed new ideas and evidence for understanding early stone tools along the Pacific Rim. His research targets the human colonization of the Americas, the evolution of the Pacific Flyway and connections between Paleoindians of the Great Basin and California's Channel Islands.
This man is an EXCELLENT presenter !
By chance, I’m back after a year. Still one of my very favorite lectures!
Great talk. And even better that the Clovis First model was being put to rest that long ago
great presentation. you can tell he's a very deep thinker on his subjects.
These are great. So glad I came across them.
I really enjoyed and appreciated your presentation. I am from Santa Barbara, used to be the director of the Santa Barbara Historical Society Museum and have a Ph.D. from UCSB in archaeology. Keep connecting those dots. Good job.
1960s and early 1990s: Siberia, Siberia Siberia.
Now: Ship from Seoul, Boat from Busan or transit from Tokyo, hold from Hokkaido, merchantman from Manila, vessel from Vladivostok, etc.!
"Transverse Projectile Point". How many broken ones have been found? Few I think. Also, it is not convincing that the wear on crescents is equal on both edges and caused by hafting. It could be caused by use wear.
Impressive .But no mention about the thesis of the migration by sea from the indonesia and other Islands.Anyway , if the migration to América , was made by navigation . I belive there were much more possibilities ,because of its facilities , that they came by the conection of the pacific Ocean as a ,laik bridge ,instead of an obstacle . We have people based in southAmérica BEFORE THE CLOVIS......and many of them .The population of América was done in several migrations from different territories from Asia , done Evidently by sea , in kayaks and canoes with an accesori of sability like catamarans of two canoes.
interesting - never heard about the surveys where about 2/3 of american archeologists support the coastal migration theory (8:19) - in Sep 2021 - a report on human footprints found in White Sands
Nat'l Park in New Mexico have been dated to about 21 to 23,000 cal yrs BP - by radiocarbon dating the seeds in the stratigraphy of the footprints - that's the middle of the ice age - so some 2/3 of the archeologists will not be surprised
Your ideas make sense, but how did these overcome the natural barriers of southern migration.
As people moved from Alaska to Ecuador, how did they adapt to the new diet, climate, night skies and even length of days?
When they got to desert like Peruvian coast, why did they go further south or inland?
I found an owl carving just this year! I'm north if you.. :-)
Columbus and the Norse arrived in boats- shouldn't surprise us the original first Americans came that way.
Thanks that was really interesting
If it is not too much trouble, may a date for this presentation and name of the conference in which it was given be posted please.
Cut grass & grain stalks, cultivation tool.
Crescents were made by women as were most scrapers and unifacial hide preping tools. They used them and they made them. Men made blades and points for hunting. In a pinch both men and women could make any kind of tool. Ask a knapper, they will agree.
Projectile? Most real projectiles are broken. Broken crescents not so common.
Those claims of crescents being "transverse projectile points" is laughable. Erlandson needs to be schooled on how the aerodynamics of such projectiles would've affected an arrow's flight. #fail
I disagree. But then again, I have replicated them and killed migratory birds with them. They work just fine.