FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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By stories passed down from previous generations of Native Americans
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By digging up tools used by Native Americans
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From notes written by the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why is the information available to archaeologists about early Native American cultures very limited? A pandemic of European diseases destroyed Native American cultures before information could be gathered.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hearing and understanding American Indian history from Indian perspectives provides an important point of view to the discussion of history and cultures in the Americas. Indian perspectives expand the social, political, and economic dialogue. Indigenous people played a significant role in the history of the Americas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bering Strait Theory-Many American archeologists-and most historians-believe American Indians descended from northern Asians who migrated to North America by crossing over a now-submerged land bridge from Siberia to Alaska somewhere between 11, 500 and 20, 000 years ago.