FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Migratory land routes stretching from the Middle East through Asia
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by land routes made passable when glaciers lowered seas
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by direct sea routes from North Africa to South America
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by sea from Iceland to the Hudson Bay
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Detailed explanation-1: -This map shows how a land bridge connected the continents of Asia and North America when the most recent ice age lowered sea levels.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The traditional theory postulates human migration across the Bering Land Bridge and then southward through a deglaciation corridor in western Canada. However, current research supports a maritime route along the southern coast of the Bering Land Bridge and Gulf of Alaska, and then southward along the Northwest Coast.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this case, the Ancient North Siberians arrived in Beringia and likely mixed with migrating peoples from East Asia. Their population eventually gave rise to both the First Peoples of North America and other lineages that dispersed through Siberia.
Detailed explanation-5: -The need that drove the English farther west into the North American continent was that they wanted more land for the colonial expansion.