FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Taking a boat across the Pacific Ocean from what is now Japan
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Walking over a land bridge in what is now the Bering Strait
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ait C. Swimming across a channel separating modern Russia and Alaska
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Canoeing across the Atlantic Ocean from northern Africa
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Detailed explanation-1: -As of 2008, genetic findings suggest that a single population of modern humans migrated from southern Siberia toward the land mass known as the Bering Land Bridge as early as 30, 000 years ago, and crossed over to the Americas by 16, 500 years ago.
Detailed explanation-2: -Whereas archaeologists once thought that the earliest arrivals wandered into the continent through a gap in the ice age glaciers covering Canada, most researchers today think the first inhabitants came by sea.
Detailed explanation-3: -The settlement of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26, 000 to 19, 000 years ago).