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Early Human Migration (settling new lands (scientists believe migrating…
Early Human Migration
settling new lands
- scientists believe migrating around the world took hundreds of thousands of years
- stone age humans migrated from africa to asia and spread out from there
- later they bagn to migrate from east africa to southern africa and southwest asia, then moved their way to australia
- high mountainous and cold temperatures delayed their migration
- scientists unsure how they got to australia
- people from asia moved to north america
- scientists dissagree on how they got to north america
- by 9000 BC, people had lived in all continents exept antarctica
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clothing and shelter
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- some took shelter in caves, others made a pit house
- pit house - a pit in the ground with sticks and leaves over it
- some lived in tents made of animal skin
- they made them out of wood, stones, and clay
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the ice ages
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- huge sheets of ice covering land
- the ice was formed from ocean water, causing ocean water levels to lower
- land bridge = strip of land connecting 2 continents - the ocean level lowering caused this to be revealed in asia and north america
- the bridges allowed stone age people to wander around the world
key terms
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land bridge- a connection between two landmasses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to colonize new territory before being cut off by the sea, as across the Bering Strait and the English Channel.
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