There is no suggestion that the foragers who settled into central and northern Asia and Europe beginning around 50,000 years ago were anything near as materially sophisticated as the civilizations that flourished in the Pacific Northwest between 1500 BC and the late nineteenth century. Nor is there any question that the environments they lived in were large permanent communities. But there is a good case to make for critical elements of the seasonal nature of their work being similar to the Pacific Northwest coast peoples, and that this represented a significant departure from the way
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