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THE FIRST SETTLERS OF AMERICA
Time to arrival of the first human beings to America
For DNA data, we know that the first settlers came at least 20,000 years ago.
The route that they followed
Most of the paleontologists agree that the Berin Strait was the only route
The Bering Strait crossing is a bridge bettween the Russian peninsula and the U.S peninsula. The bridge provide a conection linking North America, South America and Asia
How did the cross if there was water
The glaciation allowed to a dry land route (frozen steppe)
Settlement of America
These hunters and collectors migth could reach Patagonia in less than 100 years
They went to the South because therewere better weather and to look preys to hunt.
Clovis technology
They were tools tath the first settlers invented.
They were leaf-shaped, fluted spear points called Clovis points.
The lower part had the shape of a fish tail.
The culture is name for artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico.
The life of the first settlers
In the South and North of America the settlesrs found abundant and easy hunting.
They meet thousands and thousands of animals to hunt in the plains of the South of the current Canada.
In the South they mostly found herbivores
Megafauna
There were the giant animals and now all of them are extinct.
It extermination concluded 10,000 years ago and it was massive and fast.
There were two reasons for it extintion: Hunting by the human being and the climate change.