Unit 2 Essay
Question 1 As mentioned by Calloway in the beginning of the “Documents” section, it is important to consider that historians often disregard stories due to their lack of understanding and that these stories can provide insight into the lives of individuals who lived through certain times in history. As pointed out by Leslie Marmon Silko, origin stories should not be taken as fact. I think that viewpoint supports the idea of possible migrations. While the Navajo creation story of four worlds may not be completely factual, I do think it has its merits. For example, the text states that there are only pieces of Navajo history. On the other hand, the Navajo stories that are told seem to date back further and even include specific geographic features. The Abalone Shell Mountain, or San Francisco Peaks, mentioned in stories about Dinétah provides a very specific location for the Native homeland. This story includes details and dates back further than anthropological and historical accounts can. So, while some of the details may be more for the sense of commonality and identity, it could very likely have some fact in terms of location.
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For example, while the Iroquois story of the World on the Turtle’s Back has a long history of being passed down, it does not seem to have any specifics for location. Therefore, it could be argued that this story fits in with idea of migration because it does not specify a distinct location. While it cannot be said with certainty, some creation stories may be interpreted to support anthropologic migration theories. On the other hand, some creation stories date tens of thousands of years back and name specific locations that do not support these migration theories. However, these stories themselves do not explicitly accept or deny the idea that migration occurred. In general, I believe there can be more research done before a definitive answer can be
According to the standard accepted theory, the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas. The Clovis people crossed the Beringia land bridge during the period of the last ice age, from there they spread across the Americas through an ice free-corridor. However, recent finding have suggested that the first people did not walk to America but came by boat. This paper will examine evidence found in Haida Gwaii and other sites along North and South America that supports a different view of human migration to the Americas, the coastal migration theory.
During the period between 1700 to 1900 there were many changes in long distance migration patterns across the globe as well as aspects of migration that remained the same. Throughout this time period, long distance migrations from eastern regions such as Europe and Africa to the America’s remained a consistent trend, as well as the motivation for migrating. While these things remained constant, changes during the time period occurred in diversity of the peoples migrating due to slave trade across the Atlantic being banned and indentured servitude becoming an opportunity for people from places other than Africa to immigrate to the Americas.
1) List 5 business opportunities in your area and the needs each would satisfy. Note whether the opportunity is internal, external or a mix.
"Where did humans originate ? " you might of asked. Humans originated from Asia, well people believed that. People believed that native people live in America because they were descendants of long-ago ancestors from Asia. Can you believe
Humans did not come from the Americas’ for many reasons. One of those is that plates did not connect North America and Africa at that time, another reason is that all though humans did eventually migrate out then didn’t do so at the time period when North America and Africa were connected by their respected plates. This shows how humans are not from the Americas’.
The individuals possessing haplogroup X lived in these conditions before and after the Ice Age occurred (American Journal of Human Genetics, 2003). It is believed that haplogroup X migrated to the Americas about 15,000 years ago (Benson and Glad, 2006). While haplogroup X was migrating into the Americas, haplogroups A1, B, C, and D1 were migrating at the same time but in a different location than haplogroup X (Forster, Harding, Torroni, and Bandelt, 1996). Scientists believe that haplogroup X entered the Americas via Beringia which connected northeastern Asia with northwestern North America during periods of glacial expansion and when there were lower sea levels (Feder, Lepper, Barnhart, and Bolnick, 2011). The glacial expansion and lower sea levels gave rise to the bridge called Beringia that connected Siberia to Alaska. Ice never formed on the ground which allowed small groups of modern humans to survive during the Ice Age. The area in which these groups resided in most likely consisted of tundra and steppe, but resources were scarce for the inhabitants
To start off we are gonna talk about the beringia migration theories, we arrived at 13,000 B.C. and left around 11,000 B.C when the ice age was happening, we got to america by walking and using boats to get here. The reason why we came over here is that they were following their food , they was eating mammoth and beaver. Everyone knows that bergina has been here since 13,000 B.C.. Artifacts have shown
Over the course of time, many stories (or tall tales) were told from generation to generation. May they be relating to the creation of mankind or how the earth itself came to be, all of which plays a key role in the Pueblo tribe’s culture,
When an ancient skeletin was uncovered durring the breaking down of limestone cliffs and said to be a different species of human, the people of europe were shaken. German scientists rejected the idea, yet other people were open to the idea that there had been another species despite what was said in the bible. This was when the first idea that there had been an ice age began. Soon after Charles Dariwin published his book on the origin of species. This lead to the break in long lasting biblical theories. There were some isses that i was not aware of before reading this artice. One of them being that people would argue over weather or not people migrated from Asia and Europe to North America. I feel that this explains how we made out way over to the Americsas, because the Azteks did not just show up one day. They had to of come from somewhere. This also had an impact on america as we know it today, beause if they had never migrated there would of never been Native Americans in the colonies as they were when columbus arived. Amrica would of been alot different then we know it
I’m not even for sure of this. I would say with a lot more conclusive archaeological findings we could probably find out more evidence to lead us one way or the other, but it would require something really obvious to form a definite truth of this argument. Therefore, I probably go with the “No you cannot know for sure.”
The article uses multiple non-historical evidence to draw conclusions about the migrations of humans. The article states, “Reddish brown stone…Today the stone offer no clue about its original purpose”. This evidence helps conclude that early humans made use of their resource and have knowledge in carving the stone. The early humans were able to commutate with symbols, this says that humans had more brainpower to write and comprehend the symbols. DNA found in the mitochondria help prove that all humans have some relation to this women called “Eve”. This piece of evidence can conclude that all humans come from the same person meaning the same location. Using
Migration is one of evolutionary mechanisms that leads to movement of alleles between populations of species. Animals often migrate to find better living conditions and food sources when members of populations rose. Perhaps, human migration out of their original places to find better place to raise their offspring, to obtain better resources for their populations was due to population pressure. Therefore they ventured out to find their new home everywhere around the world. The environment and climate conditions made it possible for ancient Asian ancestors to across through the Sundaland due to the dry, lowland forest, and open vegetation, so navigated through the land bridge was durable. To trace their route to East Asia, various studies had
The first migration of humans began about 40,000 years ago in an area called Near Oceania. Over the years these humans produced culture diversity as well as linguistic and genetic diversity. Around 4,000 years ago people from the Asian mainland, “Austronesian speakers”, brought Lapita culture to Western Oceania. Around 1200 BC, the Austronesians expanded to Eastern Oceania. This led to the islands in the Eastern Pacific to be colonized as well as New Zealand in 1250 AD. It is believed the Polynesians made their way to the Americas because sweet potatoes from South America and Coconut Palm Trees from Central America spread throughout the Pacific basin at this time.
There is no concrete evidence, nor will there ever likely be any. According to the good Erich Von Daniken the methods and regulations of archeology hinder its progress to unearth the great mysteries of our history; new means must be achieved if the world is to ever know our true origins.
Although the understanding are similar the years and dates to when this migration came into play differ from many researchers which leaves it to question which one hypothesis is truly right. My opinion due to the lectures and class textbook, I support the evidence being showed that we all originated from Africa and traveled throughout the world. I believe our origins came out of Africa and no other place due to the lectures explaining how the oldest living DNA piece of evidence found for the first finding of human life was in Africa, it clearly states that we came from Africa and were made in there, later moving and migrated to other regions. Also, many experts say, “Numerous genetic studies support the single-origin model, finding that the genetic diversity of today 's human populations is greatest in Africa and decreases steadily with distance from that continent” (sciencemag.org). Having much beneficial evidence that humans originated from Africa can lead and tell us that this theory has a higher percentage of being right in a behavioral and anatomical content due to the research being shown. Out of Africa model seems to have more evidence although the Multiregional hypothesis has some reasonable theories to its hypothesis as well.