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    My dad always told me stories about many Native artifacts that he found in the past when he found in the past, when I was a little kid. He showed me many arrowheads, axes and poetry. Even in my grandfather's old shop he had many artifacts on the wall. There was so many artifacts I did not know what they all was. Sometimes my dad would take me places to go find artifacts. We always found many artifacts and we had a good time. Sometimes when I held the artifact I would wish that I could go back through time so I could see how they made them.one mourning when I wark up I noctic that that Iwas not in my room any more.I was in some stort of hut, I went out side I saw that I was in a Indian villege. I walked around and saw Natives working on things. I walked over to see what they was doing over there. They…

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    Religion In Anthropology

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    Archaeological Anthropology Question 1: First Appearances of Religion When we think of religion, we often are reminded or churches or temples, morality, and an all-powerful, all-knowing, and benevolent being often referred to as a God, Goddess, or in some forms of recent religions, multitudes of the formers. As cited by the Oxford Dictionary there is one common definition of religion which is the “The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.”…

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    support a human population for multiple years (Mandryk et al., 2001). He used a paleoecological model combined with paleo-landscape characteristics provided context for the evaluation of human possibly living in the corridor (Mandryk et al., 2001). The empirical data showed that major portions of the corridor were blocked 11,500 years ago, therefore an ice free corridor route was not possible (Mandryk et al., 2001). The coastal route must be discussed and looked into as a form of migration for…

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    Paleo-Indian Century

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    Sentence 1: “Despite the ongoing controversy on when the peopling of the Americas took place, there is little doubt that the Paleo-India period or adaptation was widely and firmly entrenched in Mesoamerica, and Central and South America between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago.” It seems that many of Paleo-Indian that date back to at least 10,000 years have been discovered by Peru, Ecuador and Chile’s coasts. Hence the site of these same Indians can be found in the Amazonia in Brazil amongst the…

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    Paleo-Indians Case Study

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    1. Paleo- Indians were the first people to migrate to the new world. They were to have followed other animals from their home to the new world. They were very smart, archaeologist found tools they created and used for various aspects of their lives. The Paleo-Indians are known for their “three sisters” agriculture. “Three Sisters” agriculture is the farming of maize, beans, and squash. They developed the “three sisters” agriculture because they are plants that help each other grow healthy. In…

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    As our book states, there are three periods in which early human life occurred in North America. These three periods are the Paleo-Indian, the Archaic, and the pre-Columbian. The Paleo-Indian era occurred around ten thousand to fifteen thousand years ago and is when the settlers appeared in America. They traveled to America from Asia in search of food. They traveled, by following the herds of wooly mammoths they were hunting, over a "narrow passage of iced-over land called Beringia" which is…

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    Records indicate the original inhabitants of North America for over thirty thousand years were the Paleo-Indians, but they wouldn't be alone forever. The Norse Sagas are the only records that indicate the Viking, Leif Erikson, was the first European to discover the "new world" having visited what is now known as Canada and Newfoundland. Visits were few and were not well known to other Europeans at that time. Records do not indicate why the explorations ceased other than to say some of the…

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    Many archaeologists and other researchers interpret the discovered figurines as being religious artifacts that were used in domestic rituals, Figurines such as these are especially used for ancestral veneration. ancestral veneration was a practice most probably carried over from Siberia from early Paleo-Indians, as it was commonly practiced throughout the Americas is a variety of forms. Besides appeasing household gods and venerating ancesters, figurines were also used to mark important…

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    The way you act can affect the way others think of you even if you died millions of years ago! This includes the paleo-Indians in which lived on the earth millions of years ago and even if you you intend to not be biased since you are human you will always be biased. The author of Follow the Food also thinks of the Paleo-Indians as very intelligent,crafty,and determined Based on reading the article the author believes that the Paleo-Indians were smart and intelligent. In paragraph eight the…

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    comes to an end with a picture of Columbus lying on his deathbed, sick, and surrounded by friends, family, and priests. This ending makes readers sympathize for Columbus. It is sad and emotional to see a man being depicted as a national hero to die. The way Zinn ends his first chapter is also in a benevolent way, but with a dark undertone. Zinn discusses how Indian society worked and interacted with each other before the introduction of Europeans. Zinn tells how the Indian people were peaceful…

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