The Prehistory of Wyoming's Mountain Peoples (Prehistoric North America)
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- For decades scientists have assumed that during prehistoric times humans have never really lived in the mountainous areas of North America. This assumption was most especially applied to the mountainous regions in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, which includes Yellowstone National Park, the five national forests surrounding it, Grand Teton National Park, the mountainous south central portion of a small part of southern Montana which includes the Gallatin and Absaroka mountain ranges and the Wind River Mountains. Instead, most archaeologists assumed the prehistoric peoples in North America only ventured into the mountains for brief and random periods when they had no choice due to adverse conditions such as from population pressure or from a lack of food sources. However, in recent times melting ice and wild fires have been revealing substantial evidence of humanity having a sustained presence at heights over 8,000 feet in northwestern Wyoming. These include numerous mountain villages containing innumerable artifacts. The most spectacular of these findings is a prehistoric village known as the High Rise Village site which bears evidence of humans living high in the mountains nearly 10,000 years ago. Alpine sites were once considered anomalous or outlying representations of prehistoric Native Americans venturing into the mountains or were more associated with the Great Basin region, but now, alpine settlements were considered common in Wyoming during prehistoric times. There is also increasing amounts of evidence linking the historic Shoshone tribe to the prehistoric peoples who once inhabited the various alpine archaeological village sites that have been identified. Links have also been made between the alpine archaeological sites and the Sheepeaters who lived in the mountains during the early historic period and who are now referred to as the Mountain Shoshone. By contrast the Shoshone who inhabited the Great Plains of Wyoming in the eastern part of the state during early historic times are now referred to as the Eastern Shoshone. As the will to explore the mountains for more sites increases along with the effects of climate change, which will likely reveal more and more evidence of human habitation, more will likely be learned in the future about the activities of prehistoric peoples in the mountains.
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My Dad went to Colorado State in the late 70s, majoring in wildlife biology. He used to go camping a lot, and made frequent trips to Yellowstone NP. I remember him telling me that a couple of his camping buddies were archaeology students.
Prof. Rich Adams was probably one of them. He is shown in several shots in this video, has done much work in the Dubois area and the Shirley Basin sites. I've led him and his students to numerous sites I've discovered in the Dubois area. He still teaches at UW and CSU.
Never failing to deliver diverse historical content.
I moved to Wyoming 11 years ago from the mountains of NY. I love the rocky mountains. This video gave me so much new info to investigate thank you!
You're welcome!
Excellent video! Wyoming is such a beautiful state! I am hoping to visit it one day! 👍❤️
This was a great video!
Thanks!
The algorithm really doesnt like your channel, this is exactly the type of stuff I watch and before rhis video ive never been recommended it! Seems like im in for a binge of your videos
I knew of the Sheepeaters (Tukudika) but not prehistoric era peoples, great video!
I love this channel. Could you maybe do a video on the paleo Indians of Massachusetts/New England? I live on a paleo site in Berkley, MA and, while there’s a few good videos out there, there aren’t a ton of high quality videos like World Chronicles puts out
it sounds like you are talking about the Shoshonian band known as the sheepeaters who lived on mountain sheep. a hardy people, they were one of the last free native peoples in the lower 48. during the sheepeater war they were eventually defeated by smallpox. these people and thier descendants have my respect.
ty for the video, did not know that horses existed here before european introduction, looks like horses originally evolved on the american continental plates how cool!
You’re welcome. However, I never said that horses were in North America before Europeans in my video. Instead, I was talking about how the Shoshone had horses before Europeans were in their areas in large numbers and before those Europeans began documenting everything extensively in writing. There are many instances of Native Americans like the Plans Indians acquiring horses from Europeans like the Spanish and then using those horses in their regions for about two centuries before their areas were heavily settled by Europeans.
However, horses did actually exist in the Americas long before any humans lived in the areas. But they went extinct after the Last Glacial Maximum at around 20,000 years ago along with many other megafauna
nice video
Thanks! Glad you liked it
I was born and raised in Rock Springs and I came across many things I couldn't explain 😢
Thanks!
The 70,s very interesting in Wyoming.
Great video. Maybe work on pronunciations.
It’s Doo boyz. Not the French pronunciation
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Nothing like a backhanded compliment…make ur own video lol
if a human did the narration instead of artificial intelligence the pronuciations would be correct.
Thats rad
Folks have lived in the mountains all around the world…. Except in America 😂
I don’t believe they were prehistoric. Y Chromosome testing is showing a much earlier migration of about 300 AD.
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Those mountains are massive ancient petrified tree stumps
Definitely not. They are volcanic. Even devils tower is a volcano plug.
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Yeh, they are looking for the giant chainsaw that cut it down.
@philthycat1408 educate yourself before making foolish statements
The Rocky mountains ancient trees??😂😂