SSC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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10, 000
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100, 000
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20, 000
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40, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -These populations expanded south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and spread rapidly southward, occupying both North and South America, by 12, 000 to 14, 000 years ago. The earliest populations in the Americas, before roughly 10, 000 years ago, are known as Paleo-Indians.
Detailed explanation-2: -At times throughout the Pleistocene ice age, which ended 10, 000 years ago, large ice sheets covered much of Europe and North America. The water locked in these ice sheets lowered the sea level, allowing people to walk the bridge from Asia through the Arctic to Alaska.
Detailed explanation-3: -10, 000–8000 BC: Early North American lifestyles Ancestors of American Indians hunt large mammals, catch fish, and gather fruits and nuts. Archaeological evidence found in middens (garbage dumps) from the Paleo-Indian period includes mammoth bones and tools made from bone and stone.