The Open Ocean Theory In Australia And Sub-Saharan Africa

The Coastal Route Theory explains the route that goes along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean from Asia to North and South America. The theory is that people from Southeast Asia used this route to move and settle here. The theory also helps to explain how artifacts were found so far from the Baring Straits region dating before the supposed time than humans first came into contact with the Americas. There was a skeleton found near Kennewick, Washington, believed to be of Polynesian decent. They called this skeleton the Kennewick man. It was believed to be 9,500 years old. This shows evidence of a migration to present day Northwest United States by people other than Caucasoid or European

Between "15,000 and 60,000" years ago , before the glaciers of the last Ice Age melted, the land link known as the "Bering Strait" was the way many hunters and fishers made their way to the land mass known today as America. North America, being in the path between Western and Eastern Europe later became

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.

These nomads continued moving all the way to South America. By the time Europeans arrived in America, there were already at least forty to fifty million indigenous people inhabiting the land (Faber 4-5). Other explorers, from Norway, Greenland, and Iceland reached America centuries before Columbus (Faber ix). Although these people attempted to live in this new land, they didn’t stay long, and failed to create a lasting historical impact (Faber 20-26).

Due to all of this Jose de Acosta reasoned they had to come from somewhere else. He was closed minded and thought they were too backwards to figure out how to make something to get here so they all had to walk to the americas they didn't know of the bering bridge during the time so they didn't know how people were getting across In 1587 American ancestors walked across america. In 1781 Thomas Jefferson wrote about this topic and recorded it as data into “Notes on Virginia”. Thomas Jefferson took Acosta’s ideas and bering beidge discovery he put it together to explain why the natives were here. This is how word got out and brought the people to know about the bering strait theory. This was widely accepted to looked to for answers up until

How the first Native people arrived has always been shrouded with mystery, yet there have been theorists to suggest they came in one way or another. “Heavily glaciated during the Pleistocene epoch (Ice Age), the early prehistory of Canada mirrors the withdrawal of the Ice” (Lightfoot 2009: 249). The Laurentide sheet and the smaller Cordilleran ice sheet had created floors of the Chukchi and the Bering Sea, creating a bridge between Asia and Alaska. This bridge has been presumed to be the route in which our long ago ancestors first entered the New World. It was then though Beringa, humans then begun to create settlements all over

First, sediment samples and animal remains from the Bering Sea prove that the Beringia was habitable at the height of the ice age or 21,000 years ago. According to Elias: “humans did not survive the last ice age’s peak in northeastern Siberia, and yet there is no evidence they had reached Alaska or the rest of the New World either” (Elias). At this point, Elias’s theorizes that people lived on the Beringia, a 600 mile wide area between Siberia, Russia, and Alaska. Furthermore, “sediment cores” (Elias), from the Bering sea indicate that the

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

Like this, in the beginning of the discovery, most of the Europeans looked for their benefit by selling the silver, slaves and other material items to Europeans. But as people started to settle in America, people attempted to cross the Atlantic ocean to seek for personal, religious or economic freedom and opportunities. The idea of better life condition and opportunities had also brought Native Americans from Asia. We do not know what kind of group of people came to America first, but most of scientists believe that a lot of them were from Asia who were looking for food and better conditions to live. We believe that they had crossed the land bridge call ‘Bering Land Bridge’ which was made by ice between Alaska and Siberia 2000 years ago(U.S. IMMIGRATION BEFORE 1965). The newcomers had been spread out over the continent for years and

What is the name of the early people who migrated to the Americas, and how did they arrive?

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.

The first people crossed into North America when the Ice Age had turned the Bering Strait into a land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska. When the people from Siberia wondered they were near the Rocky Mountains and continued traveling reaching the Northern Great Plains. The people who stayed in America and did not go back (or make it back) before the Bering Strait turned back into a body of water came to be known as Indians. Theses Indians divided themselves into regions and tribes, and each were successful at different skills and developing different crops. The Olmecs settled in Mexico and were the first to build cities, pyramids, sculptures, and developed beans squash and maize. The Mayas were in the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula, they developed some astronomy, math, and written language. Other tribes were scattered from the Great Lakes to British Columbia and California. The animals that these tribes hunted and used were elk, antelope, small game, fish, whales, seals, moose, and caribou.

Where did they go is also speculated. I believe they came down the coast line, staying close to the water for food, and drink. Some theory is the “ice-free corridor” crossing into America from Canada. We can speculate which way they came, but we know they came and settled across the North American landscape. With the archaeological find in Oregon, I would say that most traveled along the Pacific coast line and then moved eastward towards the Atlantic Ocean. Some moved farther south and populated South America. With thousands of years in the making and many families and tribes born, I can see how North America and South America was populated.

There is said to be many different explorers or settlers to come to America but did not discover it.The first settlers that came to the Northern pars of America were known as the Paleo-Indians. This happened in different waves and at a variety of locations. The belief that some of the people resembled Asia rather than Europeans led them to think that there were others here before them. Some believe that the first settlers came not for fame but because they were searching for food because they were hungry. They came following a herd of wooly mammoths with the hope of feeding and clothing their families.The second largest pre-Columbian culture to develop was that of the Mississippians. There were many tribes that lived about the same time but

Since the 16th century, the Bering Strait region has been viewed as the likely route of travel from the Old World to the New World. Paleoindians moved into North America beyond the Bering Land Bridge between Eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska during the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) when sea levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation. (Rivals & Semprebon, 2012, pg. 1608-1609). Pleistocene animals grazed their way through ice-free corridors, water logged routes, across Beringia and into Siberia, leaving footprints in the dry land in which hunter gatherer Paleoindians