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Origins of American Settlement - Coggle Diagram
Origins of American Settlement
Amerinds
Related to Asiatic people
Mongol
Hapologroup testing
Theories of Migration
40,000 land bridge
1500 land bridge~ probably came that time
Areas clear of ice
Problems
No skeletons before 13,000
Evidence of hunting by 30,000
Social Types
Typification
Hunter-gatherer bands
Small family units
Paiute
Limited-scale tribal societies
Navajo and Algonquian
Only the whole tribe on occasion
Full-scale tribal societies
The Haudenosaunee
Complex societies
Mississippian
Mound-building
Cahokia
Copper workshop
Mesoamerica
Olmecs (1800-150 BCE)
Written language
Trade networks
Advanced engineering
Obsidian tools
Long Count Calendar
Absorbed by the Maya
The Maya
Preclassical Period 2000 BCE to 150 CE
Agricultural villages growing into city-states
Corn, beans, squash, hunting game
Writing system glyphs; advanced math and astronomy
Pyramids
The Classical Period 150 CE to 900 CE
City-state kingdoms
Nobles: priests, warriors, merchants, and kings
Bloodletting and ritual ball game
Polytheistic
Tikal and Calakmul
Collapse
Post-Classical Period 900 CE to 1200 CE
Chichen Itza