This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

and this is volume 2 the ancient world

episode 31 the Olmix. Oh, It could be the case that humankind began to populate the Americas in waves from around 25,000 years ago.

A significant amount of human activity has been discovered dating to around 15,000 years ago, stretching from the far northwest, which

would be the logical entry point from Asia across Beringia, with evidence of human activity right down to the far south and Patagonia in South America.

The Americas were the home of a significant amount of animal species, including

mega fauna, which are large animals.

A number of these species disappeared around 10,000 years ago, and there exists much debate

about how much of an influence human beings had on these extinctions. Certainly one of the earliest

cultures called the Clovis culture has displayed evidence of spear points and mammoth hunting.

The Clovis culture emerged shortly after 11,000 B.C.E. in and around the modern state of New Mexico in the United States.

It is something we spoke about way back in episode 11 of

one of the podcast on the prehistoric world. We then learned

that the peoples of the Americas started moving towards agricultural ways of life.

And we speculated about why this same development would happen in an area of the world which

appears to have absolutely no connection with Eurasia, especially as

the land bridge between Asia and the Americas had now disappeared underwater, cutting the Americas off from the rest of the world permanently.

We also see the development of ceramics in the Americas which possibly dates back almost 10,000 years.

Now it is interesting to speculate once again that we are aware that the people of

Chinese lands had developed the most advanced

ceramic skills known in the world which may have influenced the notable Jomon pottery culture of Japan.

This development in the north of modern China

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