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TEMPLATE FOR NOTE TAKING (One Class Period)
TEMPLATE FOR NOTE TAKING (One Class Period)
2. Main Points The summary which was presented on class was divided,
or Evidence: each part described an important event:
6. Reflect: how does this Many things have amazed me, the first being how based
conflict with my current on the analysis of mtDNA and the chromosome Y we can
knowledge? show a relation between Native Americans and northeast
Asians, but also, we can have an approximate period in
which this people split, simply knowing we can study and
discover such important things by analyzing such small
components on the remains of human beings seems simply
amazing to me.
The fact that we still have much to learn and to figure out
about the peopling of America even when we have access
to great scientific methods, makes me think this part of our
history is much complicated than I initially thought.
Finally, something I really want to know about is how
people from different places in the world adapted to what
their environment provided after the extinction of the
megafauna, because I believe that is one of the most
important events in human history, because due to that
adaptation we can still be here.
7. Reflect: What knowledge Knowledge I can use for this class come from books that I
can I use from my other have read about the ice age, things teachers taught me in
classes or experience to the school (even when most of them hardly know anything
better understand the about the topic), also the knowledge gain from
material? archaeology classes is quite important in order to
understand better what we are looking in the class, and as
always, the geographic knowledge helps me to understand
much better some events discussed in class.
8. Restate verbal instruction NA
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TEMPLATE FOR NOTE TAKING (one class period)
2. Main Points At the beginning of the class, we discussed about how the
or Evidence: Amerindians and many other cultures remain
understanding the world in which humans and nature are
highly related and how we, as part of the Western society,
don’t understand the world in this way, in fact we are
constantly looking for taking recurses from the nature.
3. Expand with your notes Mesoamerica’s Archaic period lasted for seven millennia
from the readings beginning at the end of the Younger Dryas. The end of this
period was irregular, with the earliest using of ceramic by
villagers documented at 1900 cal. BC. During the third and
fourth millennia BC, sedentism increased around different
sources of water, such as the lakes in the Basin of Mexico
and the estuaries of the Gulf coast and the Soconusco
region on the Pacific coast. Different adaptations were
created, with more mobile peoples inhabiting the dry
highland valleys of Mexico and Guatemala and much of
the Maya lowlands. Ultimate climatic causes, however,
provide only a limited understanding of the past, whereas
proximate causes provide a more complete picture of
where, when, and how food production, sedentism, and
ceramic use developed. The Neolithic revolution came
long after the first plant domestication. Nonagricultural
societies with a low level of reliance on domesticates
flourished in Mexico for a longer period of time than
either preceding hunter–gatherer societies or later
agricultural ones.
5. Question(s) to ask: How different was this transition to agriculture for human
beings in other parts of the world?
6. Reflect: how does this This class really made me understand the process that our
conflict with my current ancestors lived. During primary and secondary school
knowledge? teachers taught me about this topic, but all of them talked
about agriculture as something which appear from
nowhere, had no process or the process occurred extremely
quick. Thanks to this class I discovered that the process
leading to agriculture was slow due to some specific
circumstances.