FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
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They wanted to live on a different continent
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They followed the animals
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They thought it would be a fun adventure
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They wanted to live in a warmer place
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Detailed explanation-1: -Scientists one theorized that the ancestors of today’s Native Americans reached North America by walking across this land bridge and made their way southward by following passages in the ice as they searched for food.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first definitive archaeological evidence we have for the presence of people beyond Beringia and interior Alaska comes from this time, about 13, 000 years ago. These people are called Paleoindians by archaeologists.
Detailed explanation-5: -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).