USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where did the first Americans come from?
A
Siberia
B
South America
C
Europe
D
The Pacific
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Study traces complex migrations tens of thousands of years ago. Indigenous Americans, who include Alaska Natives, Canadian First Nations, and Native Americans, descend from humans who crossed an ancient land bridge connecting Siberia in Russia to Alaska tens of thousands of years ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is thought that the ancestors of modern Native Americans first migrated to North America from Siberia at least 15, 000 years ago across the Bering land bridge – a piece of dry land that at that time connected modern Russia and Alaska.

Detailed explanation-3: -Around 38, 000 years ago, these people migrated to Siberia from Europe and Asia. They adapted quickly to the region’s frigid Ice Age conditions, the team reports. DNA from two 31, 600-year-old teeth (two views of each tooth shown) in Russia helped identify a group of Siberians who trekked into North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13, 000 to 13, 500 years ago. These people, the first North Americans, were known collectively as Clovis people.

Detailed explanation-5: -Drought, flood, and temperature changes could certainly push people to move on. Climate change also affects the food supply, and anthropologists have assumed that people came to the Americas because they were following food on the hoof.

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