Latin America and Oceania BCE

Prehistory

• Bering straight land bridge

Pre-Classical Maya

• Slash and burn with some agricultural

• First in the Americas to keep historical records (kept on pots, buildings, jade and bones)

• Established centers throughout Mexico and central America in 1200 B.C.

Olmec 1200-400BCE

• Location: Veracruz and Tabasco Mexico

• Shaman assume the shape of animals- most powerful is a jaguar

Zapotec • Valley of Oaxaca

• Thought to be the first group in the Americas to develop written language

• Developed artisan work of clay, jade and gold

Early South American

• Very small groups cut off due to geography

• Although groups such as the Chavin Cult developed in the region there is no evidence of developed states

Austronesians

• Use of outrigger Canoes

• Arrive at Fiji 1300 BCE and Samoa and Tonga by 1000 BCE

• What is the Theory of how people first came to the Americas?

• What was the pre classical Maya technique for Agriculture?

• Name two nations in contemporary Oceania?