Week 5
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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Week 5
Miles Schneider ANTH2030 Summer 2014
Colonization
- Occurred sometime between 60-40 kya
- Coincides with extinction of megafauna
- Many dating methods have been used
- 45,000 years ago is the most accurate date
Photo by marfis75
Extinction of the largest game (most ideal for effort-reward) may have spurred human migration or been a result of it
Photo by ecstaticist
Dating methods
- AMS
- (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry)
- ABOX-CS
- (acid base wet oxidation with stepped combustion)
Photo by Travis S.
James F O'Connell
- University of Utah Proffessor
- Hunter-gatherer ecology
- Archaeological method and theory
- Australia, Africa, North America
- http://www.anthro.utah.edu/faculty/james-f-oconnell.html
