SELECTED FIGURES

ANT 175:  Unit II
ANT 175H:  Part 2-A
Archaeology of the Americas
Central Michigan University

These have been assembled by the instructor for classroom purposes, to accompany lectures.  Only certain selected PowerPoint images used in class are reproduced below.

Updated 6 October 2004
Anthropology 175
Anthropology 175H
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Archaeological Dating

See figures for Unit I

 

Contemporary Human Variation and Native American Origins

Population Comparison
Evolutionary Divergence
Branches from Common Ancestry
Population Movements into North America

Prepared and/or modified  by C. M. Hastings for use by ANT 175 students only

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Old World Upper Paleolithic

Chronology
Stages of Human Evolution
General Characteristics
Cold Adaptations
Technology

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Glaciers, Past & Present

Aletsch Glacier,
Swiss Alps
Glacier Terminus,
Swiss Alps
Small Glacier,
Swiss Alps
Recent Striations,
Swiss Alps
Pleistocene Striations, Ontario

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Pleistocene North America

What Makes a Glacier?
Sea Level Changes
North-South Shifts in Environmental Zones

Population Expansion into Beringia
Ocean Currents Affecting Beringia
Beringia During the Wisconsin Maximum

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Maximum extent of Pleistocene glacieation.
Modified slightly by C. M. Hastings for use by ANT 175 students only; derived from OUR CHANGING CONTINENT by John S. Schlee, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/continents/

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Routes past Late-Wisconsin ice sheets in Canada.
Substantially modified by C. M. Hastings for use by ANT 175 students only;
Derived from part of a Preliminary Land Ecosystem Map of North America 13,000 radiocarbon years ago, by Adams J.M. & Faure H. (1997) (ed.s), QEN members. Review and Atlas of Palaeovegetation: Preliminary land ecosystem maps of the world since the Last Glacial Maximum. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA.  http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/adams1.html 
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North American Paleo-Indian

Chronology
Pre-Clovis
Clovis, Folsom, & Plano

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