Ice Age Columbus Evaluation
Ice Age Columbus
Watching this documentary helped me realize the conveniences and things we live with today are not needed at all to survive this life. Even though the movie didn’t seem one hundred percent accurate, I feel that it gave me a good perspective to the way people lived twenty thousand years ago. We use so many technological devices in our everyday lives that we would not be able to survive outside of our usual environment without them. The Solutrean people had no means of transportation besides their feet on land, and boat on water. They had to hunt for their food, which was mostly scarce due to the harsh weather conditions. They had no way of communicating with anyone that wasn’t actually there in person. They truly had a completely different idea of the word struggle than people today. The Solutrean hypothesis is an alternative theory about the settlement of America. It contradicts the more widely accepted theory that Native Americans first came from Asia by crossing the Bering Strait. The Solutrean hypothesis suggests that the Solutrean culture migrated from Europe to North America during the last Ice Age. The documentary takes place 17,000 years ago, and starts off by showing that North America was a vast frozen land uninhabited by humans. It focuses on a small group of people from the south of France. These people are modern Homo sapiens who are struggling to survive through the Ice Age. The group is well organized with different ranks and roles for each individual.
As times get rough on this group of Solutreans with weather conditions getting worse, and members of the group dying, they are later forced to travel out into the ocean. Weak and hungry, they land at the shore of a new land. The theory mostly makes sense to me, but it’s hard to believe that they crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a small boat at that time. I cannot see how anyone can survive such a task with minimal resources, even with today’s weather conditions. If there were
Watching this documentary helped me realize the conveniences and things we live with today are not needed at all to survive this life. Even though the movie didn’t seem one hundred percent accurate, I feel that it gave me a good perspective to the way people lived twenty thousand years ago. We use so many technological devices in our everyday lives that we would not be able to survive outside of our usual environment without them. The Solutrean people had no means of transportation besides their feet on land, and boat on water. They had to hunt for their food, which was mostly scarce due to the harsh weather conditions. They had no way of communicating with anyone that wasn’t actually there in person. They truly had a completely different idea of the word struggle than people today. The Solutrean hypothesis is an alternative theory about the settlement of America. It contradicts the more widely accepted theory that Native Americans first came from Asia by crossing the Bering Strait. The Solutrean hypothesis suggests that the Solutrean culture migrated from Europe to North America during the last Ice Age. The documentary takes place 17,000 years ago, and starts off by showing that North America was a vast frozen land uninhabited by humans. It focuses on a small group of people from the south of France. These people are modern Homo sapiens who are struggling to survive through the Ice Age. The group is well organized with different ranks and roles for each individual.
As times get rough on this group of Solutreans with weather conditions getting worse, and members of the group dying, they are later forced to travel out into the ocean. Weak and hungry, they land at the shore of a new land. The theory mostly makes sense to me, but it’s hard to believe that they crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a small boat at that time. I cannot see how anyone can survive such a task with minimal resources, even with today’s weather conditions. If there were