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I want to focus on early Indigenous history and specifically how archaeologists try to date early settlement of the Americas. One interesting was to do this is looking in the archaeological record to see how early Americans interacted with megafauna. However, after listening to Paulette Steeve's interview on CBC podcast Ideas, I also think it could be fascinating to look more into how oral history supports an earlier settlement of the Americas than current archaeological theory. I also think there is potential for overlap in these two ideas. For one, Steeve's talks about an Osage oral account of a fight between bison and mastodons where the Osage burned the remains of the animals that died during the fight. Much later, archaeologists found evidence of a large burning of mastodons and bisons on Osage lands. I would be interested to look more into this intersection of using oral tradition to inform archaeological research.

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Pleistocene Megafauna

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Oral History

 * This article is incredible frustrating. The organization of the article is a mess. There is a Europe section which includes GB and Ireland, but then there are separate sections on Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic. As you could imagine there is a huge amount of information on European oral history traditions, however there is much less on oral history from other areas. Perhaps most frustrating about this article is that the section on North America talks very little on Indigenous oral history tradition and rather focuses immensely on how 19th century Euro-Americans collected recordings of different peoples oral history. I think the reason for the oversampling of Europe in comparison to the Americas and else where is because there is another wikipedia article called Oral Tradition. I haven't investigated the difference between subject matter between these two articles yet, but I'm skeptical. There is a section on the Talk page discussing the combinations of oral history and oral tradition, which I plan to look at in more detail.
 * From the section on the merger of oral history and oral tradition on the oral history talk page.
 * this article is quite poor. It mostly describes 'oral tradition'. Oral history is not "something passed down by word-of-mouth", it is the recorded interviewing of those who experianced certain historical events first-hand by a trained historian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.196.29.69 (talk • contribs) 13:01, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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Settlement of the Americas

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