5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 2

5-COMMENTS:

*According to "experts", mankind came to North America via land bridge across the Bering sea into Alaska about 12,000 years B.C.

*In the early seventies, a new method of dating bones was devoloped at the San Diego Museum, known as Aspartic Acid Recemization (AAR), but it was found erroneous in 1985.

*Indians lived in South America long before crossing the Bering Strait and bridge during the last ice-age.

*It is possible that migration of civilization of the mankind was first made from the Americas to Asia.

*Polynesians and Micronesians navigated the vast expanses of oceans in outtrigger canoes, sailing more than three timesthe distance between Africa and South America.

4-QUESTIONS:

*How do the "experts" create new ways to analyze bones?

*What is AAR based on?

*How could people cross the Bering Strait over ice?

*who or what are Polynesians and Micronesians?

3-VOCABULARY:

*splurge: any very showy display or effort.

*seaworthy: fit to travel on the sea: said of a ship.

*shipwreck: the remains of a wrecked ship.

*amorphous: without definite form.

2-LITERARY TERMS:

*Allusion: in page # 18 the author makes a reference to "AMERICAN GENESIS", basing some of his research in that book, and also some of his comments about old civilizations in America.(it is a allusion to a literary work)

*Description: the author/narrator describes many different types of cicilizations (ancient civilizations) such as the arriving of people from Asia through the Bering Strait.

1-SUMMARY:
*In this part of the book, the author talks about how the analyzing of bones has been advancing throughout the years, how it came from antiquated to sofisticated, for instance, he talks about AAR (Aspartic Acid Recemination).The writer also talks about a theory the "experts" heve devoloped, which is about the first civilizations on Earth, they say that it could be possible that the first civilization could have been formed in South America and they spread throughout the continent and then they could have emigrated to Asia through the Bering Strait, and then some came back many years later taking the same road. Nevertheless this theory has not been proved yet by the "experts", but it is one more theory on the history books.