FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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The Traveling Theory
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The Nomadic Theory
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The Land Bridge Theory
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The Native American Theory
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Bering Land Bridge Theory-Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
Detailed explanation-2: -"According to the Land Bridge Theory, Native Americans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge that formed during the Ice Age.” “The hunter-gatherer is wandering around, hunting and gathering, and eventually when they get over here, they are no longer stopped by the Bering Strait.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Two theories currently explain the arrival of humans in the Americas: the Bering Strait land bridge theory and the coastal migration theory.
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.