Native Americans Of The New World

Based on the research conducted by the Forensic Anthropologist Chatters on the skeletal remains of the Kennewick man, he seems to be a European migrant. The man definitely belonged to the western hemisphere, as definitive characteristics indicate so. Furthermore, he could belong either to the east or to the west of the Atlantic, since forensic studies indicate that his diet was strongly composed of Anadromous fish – fish born in the sea and lives in fresh water, before returning to the sea to spawn. As the video “The first Americans-Part 1” mentions the European roots that the Kennewick man had, I would agree with the claims of the forensic anthropologist that the man had a European descent. The video also mentioned that Native Americans themselves

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

First, the Beringia theory states that the first Americans came across a land land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska around 10,000-12,000 years ago. During an ice age, large amounts of water would form into glaciers, sea levels would decrease and therefore expose more land (ex. modern day Bering Strait). The land bridge was a vast grassland, where animals grazed, and nomadic hunters followed the herds

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.

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.

We know the ancestors of all Native Americans came from Asia. We know this to be a fact because DNA analysis of Native Americans, including Native Americans of the southwestern United States, shows a direct link to people living in northeast Asia today. According to Jake Page, former editor of both "Natural History" and "Smithsonian" magazines: "...geneticists have found...DNA lineages present in native populations...which...are found only in Asians…". Linguistic and dentition analysis also demonstrate Native Americans descended from peoples living in Asia. Today, almost no one debates the premise that the ancestors of Native Americans came from Asia. There is also very little debate as to how these first Asians arrived in North America. Because so much of the world's water was locked up in glaciers during the last ice age, sea level was lower than it is today. According to David Meltzer, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University and an internationally recognized authority on the first inhabitants of the New World: “…these lowered oceans exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering and Chukchi Seas. This shelf…connected Alaska and Siberia…and it trafficked…in plants, animals, and people."

1st movement of people into the Americas: from Asia who went over the Bering Strait (see terms) by land during the Ice Age

-North America and Asia were reconnected so that’s how people migrated through during 15,000 BP.

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

The Ice Age froze most of the oceans into glaciers and the lowered sea levels uncovered a bridge connecting Eurasia and North America. Animals that migrated crossed this bridge and Asian hunters followed them into N.A.People kept coming in via the Bering land bridge for 250 years.

Data suggests this because the oldest North American artifacts were found in Eastern United States. According to the Solutrean Hypothesis, that is exactly where the early people had landed. Also, there is no way that the early people who had gotten to America 12,000 years ago, and traveled to the other side of the continent 5,000 years earlier. To add to this, the South Pacific theory may be true, but that does not mean that they were here

As earth’s last continents to be colonized by humans, all skeletal remains found in the Americas are modern Homo sapiens. Modern human dispersal out of Africa across Eurasia began about 50 ka and reached the Americas around 15ka (Goebel, 2008). The last global maximum took place around 20ka when sea level was 60ft lower than present day and the land bridge between Beringia and Tierra del Fuego was exposed. Routes of migration are hard to estimate from genetic data. Archaeological data tells us that humans entered America around the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, 11ka, via an ice-free mid-continental corridor. This model would support a relatively even latitudinal migration southward. An alternative migration route is along the Pacific coasts. This model could

I have this crazy theory, and it turns out I’m not the only one who has this theory. My theory is the Saint Brendan came to North America first, not Leif Erickson, the Chinese, or even Columbus. My main proof is his book Brendan wrote about his adventure over sea, most people think nothing more of the book as tall tales; but some others believe there is some truth within the pages. They think people just added to the original manuscript to make the story a bit more interesting. A couple of these added plot events to spice up the story include, seeing sea monsters fight in the ocean, the group seeing a gryphon fight a bird, a whale which is so big the group mistakes it for an island, and that they found 13 islands. All these things could not have happened because they are all fictional hocom and folklore. He does have a couple plot events that make sense and I'll be glad to tell you them if you keep reading this essay.

This theory is the first theory archeologists came up with. The theory states that people from Siberia traveled a land bridge formed by the Bering Strait. They followed this land bridge because game frequently migrated on the land bridge so humans followed them. This may have occurred about 11,500 years ago. The evidence for this theory is archeologists found spear tips around Clovis New Mexico that matched similar spear tips that where found near the Bering Strait.

Most people wonder how people first arrived in the Americas. Well, many Archeologists have looked at different sites in both North and South America. At the different sites, the archeologists have found many different artifacts that help support different theories. There are four main theories that have been investigated. First, the Beringia Theory. Second, the Solutrean’s Hypothesis. Next, Open Ocean. Finally, Coastal Migration. The Most plausible out of these theories is the Solutrean’s Hypothesis.