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surplus food created a unique social organization centered on elaborate feasts, called potlatches
beginning of modern day potluck?
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Native peoples in the Southwest began constructing these highly defensible cliff dwellings in 1190 CE and continued expanding and refurbishing them until 1260 CE before abandoning them around 1300 CE
These buildings are really cool because I think they're a much needed reminded that the Natives didn't just wander around in tents and tipis like what's shown in most American media, they were complex civilizations.
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Agriculture arose sometime between nine thousand and five thousand years ago, almost simultaneously in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
I think it's really crazy how humans all invented agriculture around the same time period in completely different areas and with little to no contact with others
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Bering Strait
Beringia theory
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The Salinan people of present-day California, for example, tell of a bald eagle that formed the first man out of clay and the first woman out of a feather.
Very similar to the Greek creation story, where Prometheus sculpted humans from clay and Athena breathed life into them
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