Clovis Theory In America

Traditional Native American history tells that Native Americans have always inhabited the North American Continent since the beginning of time, but this is open for debate. Many historic scientists have believed in what is known as The Bering Land Bridge Theory, which is a theory that been widely accepted since the early 20th century. The idea of this theory

     In the essay written by Jeffrey Hart entitled, “Discovering Columbus”, he argues strongly that, in fact, Columbus did discover America. He starts off by describing Columbus as “a genuine titan, a hero of history and of the human spirit.” He goes on to say

According to the standard accepted theory, the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas. The Clovis people crossed the Beringia land bridge during the period of the last ice age, from there they spread across the Americas through an ice free-corridor. However, recent finding have suggested that the first people did not walk to America but came by boat. This paper will examine evidence found in Haida Gwaii and other sites along North and South America that supports a different view of human migration to the Americas, the coastal migration theory.

People argue that Christopher Columbus was the first to find America, but other people argue that the Native Americans were the first ones in America. In 1492 Christopher Columbus voyages from spain to the Americas not knowing what was there. So was Christopher Columbus the first one to find out about America? Would he be a hero or a villain for saying he did, or saying he did but actually didn’t and just wants to get the credit for it.

When Columbus sailed to prove that the world was round, according to the website Livescience.com, he was late by two-thousand years. Ancient Greek mathematicians already have already proved that the world was round and not flat. Also according to this website, Columbus’s education was self taught and he believed that Europe was wider, and that Japan was further away from China’s coast. These are the reasons that he was going to try and find shorter trade route to Asia. When a student hears Columbus’ name they may instantly think that he was the first person to discover America. Although there were millions of Native Americans who were living in the New World, Columbus is the man who is getting all of the credit for finding the New World. There were also other travelers who had discovered America before Christopher Columbus.

According to Loewen they got his name right, and not much else. Lies points out that there were many groups of explorers that had "discovered" America before Columbus. He probably used some of their information as a basis for his plans to sail west. A full eight pages are devoted to other possible explorers. These groups include ancient groups from Indonesia, Japan, China, and Phoenicia. More recent groups include the Vikings, British Islanders, West Africans, and Portuguese fishermen. There are varying levels of evidence connecting these groups to pre-Columbian America, but still enough to throw doubt into the mix. Columbus got the credit because of the way in which Europe responded to his "discovery."

Even though Columbus was not the first person to step foot in the America’s, he was the first person, from the Eastern Hemisphere, to discover it. For example, when we discover a new species on an island, we may not have known that it existed, but the other living creatures there knew that it did. While Rebecca Dobbs in Document B is right that the Americas were not empty by any stretch of imagination and people lived there and knew about this part of the world, others did not know about it. However, in a letter to Queen Isabelle, Columbus states that they have landed on an island and the people there

Anthropological theories concerning the peopling of North America is a topic that is widely debated. By far, Western scientists seem to agree that: “As a result of the vast amount of water that was locked up in glacial ice toward the end of the Pleistocene era, there was a worldwide drop in sea level of as much as 400 feet” (Sutton 19), creating a land link, known as the Beringia, between Asia and Alaska. Starting from this point about the land link, we find that Elias’s article “First Americans Lived on Bering Land Bridge for Thousands of Years,” is the most agreeable theory about the peopling of North America.

When Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, he ended up in the islands of the Caribbean, which is not America. Furthermore, there were already humans there, so he wasn't the first to

Many people believe believed throughout history that the beginning of North America’s inhabitance was when Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the year 1492. They believed that he is the person who discovered America where in fact it was the Native Americans who made the initial discovery. Therefore, Columbus’s mission is considered more of a journey. One of the motivators behind the voyage was to move away from Britain and begin a new life in what was to them, land of potential opportunity.

Indians arrived in America some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. Archeological findings and Radiocarbon testing suggested that the prehistoric people who populated the Americas were hunters following the herds of wooly mammoths. They walked from Siberia across a land bridge into Alaska. They headed south toward warmer climates, slaughtering the mammoths as they went. As the glaciers melted, the oceans rose and covered this land bridge, creating the present-day Bering Strait and separating Alaska from Russia. By the time Christopher Columbus arrived, they were millions of what might be called First Americans or Amerindians occupying the two continents of Americas. The first noted documentation of the Beringia theory of the peopling of North America was by Jose de

In the first part of this article it explains how dogma has trumped science. Through the couse of this first section it explains the idea of the Bering Strait theory. This is a highly controversal theory that states that Paleoindians walked from Asia over an anciant land bridge about 15,000 years ago. To many people this theory is rock solid but to some it is an insult. There are some breaks in the theory, one being that there is a gap in time that is unaccounted for. Some say that they settled into the land bridge then once again moved, but this is not for certian. There was even a term coined for die-hard archaeologists who insist upon Clovis as representing the earliest culture of North America. They were called the "Clovis Police". The

On the other side he discovered a vast body of water that he named "South

At first, these cultures may seem extremely isolated from one another, so magical thinking would thought to be very different, but this is not true. Much Native Russian people and native American people have quite similar DNA. This is due to the migration of Russians across the Bering Strait into what is today the United States and Canada. In doing so, many Native Russian beliefs and ways of life were brought over and manifested in similar but different forms among tribes that are based in North America. Scientist have found conclusive DNA evidence to prove the close relation between Native Russians of the Siberian region and Native Americans. To do this, scientist examined 25,000 samples of DNA from Russian Natives and the nationalities of peoples’ in neighboring countries. After this they searched for specific DNA markers such as the Y chromosome and the Mitochondrial DNA, along with other chromosomes, in doing so the scientists concluded that many people of Siberian descent and many individuals of Native American descent shared many common ancestors. (Ter-Ghazaryan, Aram, 1) The history of how people of Siberian descent migrated to North America is also well known. Approximately 30,000 years ago, during the ice age, what today is the Bering Strait, was then a land bridge, bridging the continents of Asia and North America together, through a giant mass of ice. During this period, many people migrated across the land bridge from Siberia into modern day Alaska. (Ter-Ghazaryan, Aram,1) Eventually, overtime the people of Siberia settled in North America and spread throughout the continent. Here Native American culture and tradition formed, and while different in many aspects to that of their Siberian ancestors, some practices carried on and manifested in different forms among

Settling the Continent When Christopher Columbus came to North America, he thought the natives were Indian and thought he arrived in India. Indian is a term that covers many different cultures and languages in the Americas. Indians in North America had similar attributes between each other with long straight dark hair with almond shaped eyes with tan skin that ranges in different colors. Europeans found out that the new world is not connected to asia they made theories of transoceanic migrations. A Spanish jesuit missionary Joseph de Acosta made a theory that says since there were old world animals in the americas then the Indians had crossed a land bridge to get there. Scientific research and evidence shows that the native americans had a resemblance with Asians due to a theory of a land bridge connecting the two continents. Beringia is a sub continent that bridged between North America and Asia and the Native Americans moved further down when the glaciers melt 3000 years ago. The later migrations to North America was the Athapaskan, people that migrated around 5000 BC to the northwestern part of America from Beringia. The Clovis tradition is a sophisticated style of toolmaking like points and flutes that is not found in the old world. This was found in New Mexico and dated 11,000 years ago and spread quickly throughout the continent. New Ways of Living on the Land After the Ice Age, the massive climate change placed stress on the animals and over hunting the animals