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After the Ice: Cultural Change in the Post-Pleistocene

After the Ice: Cultural Change in the Post-Pleistocene


1. Describe the adaptive changes made by the cultures of the early Holocene.

2. Understand the characteristic features of Archaic North America, including the focus on locally available foods and the development of highly specialized and localized economies.

3. Identify how adaptations to local environments produce cultural diversity.

4. Explain how cultural flexibility defines us as a species.

5. Recognize the factors that led some groups into sedentary lives and what results entailed from that lifestyle.