The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations Author(s): Kent V. Flannery Source: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 3 (1972), pp. 399-426 Published by: Annual Reviews…

The First Americans The First Americans Prehistory-1492 Chapter One, Sections 1-3 Section 1: migration to the americas Please SKIM AND SCAN this section! We already did a…

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Slide 1 Empires of Early America Slide 2 Olmec Civilization  Earliest Mesoamerican civilization  Famous for their statutes of colossal heads  Olmec research is still…

Slide 1 Slide 2 2 Million Years of Style Slide 3 Australopithecus Afarensis Slide 4 Upright walking leaves hands free to manipulate. Slide 5 Prehensile hands (& feet)…

Slide 1 OLMEC & MAYA Slide 2 Slide 3 The Olmec civilization was the earliest civilization in Mesoamerica. Olmec, means “people of the land of rubber”. Lived in southern…

Slide 1 Chapter 9-1 The Earliest Americans Slide 2 North and South America form a single stretch of land that reaches from the freezing cold of the Arctic Circle in the north…

Slide 1 By: Nealy,Kassie, Carli: Slide 2 A is for A dobe A type of clay traditionally used as a building material by Native Americans and, later, Spanish colonists in the…

Slide 1 Essential Question: What can historians learn/analyze about an early complex society based on the existence of their monuments and structures? Copy question in notebook…

Slide 1 Ch. 1: Native American Groups Vocabulary: conquistadors, habitat, nomad, origins, clan, confederacy Slide 2 Ancient South and Central American Civilizations Olmecs…