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Position:Home>History> Who were the first Americans?Question: Who were the first Americans!? Who were the first people to arrive in the Americas!? Where did they come from!? Why didn't humans migrate into North America any sooner than they did!? What challenges did the prehistoric migrants into the Americas face in adapting to a new habitat!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There is some debate about who, exactly, the first peoples in North America were!. According to new finds, they came from Southeast Asia and the southern Pacific, and are not the ancestors of Native Americans today!. Native Americans supposedly descended from northeast Asia, coming into the continent by a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska about 12,000 years ago!. The new finds in Baja would refute that claim!. Archaeologists are claiming that the peoples from the Pacific/Southeast Asia region arrived before the Clovis people, about 1,000 years earlier!. Why didn't they come sooner!? Anthropologists believe humans could not have gotten further south until the clearing of the Ice-Free Corridor about 12,000 years ago, they had to have a clear route to be able to get to North America!. also, because they were hunter/gatherers, it required lots of time for them to make a long journey!. The land was more varied, the climate more temperate and the species of plant and animal more abundant!. It had to be difficult to adapt to new ideas, new ways of doing things, and to learn what new things were and were not edible, but seeing the sophistication of the paleo cultures, I'd say they did just fine!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The first people to inhabit the American continents were nomadic people from Asia!. During the last Ice Age they crossed from Siberia into Alaska across a "land bridge" in the Bering Sea!. From there down a gap in the glaciers that covered Western Canada!. They did not get to the Americas sooner, because there was no other way!. I do not think there were any more challenges to life in the Americas than there were challenges in the Old World; finding food and shelter were still prominent issues!. On the first question there is some believe and archeological evidence that some European crossed the Atlantic Ocean during the Ice Age!. From arrowheads found in Virginia that suggest some hunters travelled along the ice sheet in the North Atlantic hunting seals and ended up in North America!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Clovis people were one of the earliest civilizations in North America!. They crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia or Alaska!.Www@QuestionHome@Com martiansWww@QuestionHome@Com |