Beringian Theory

Have you ever wondered who were the first people? Where did they live? How did they even get here? Using sources we are going to find out. The beringian theory. The Transparency, American History: Beginnings to 1865, Holt McDougall states that the first people crossed the bering land bridge from Russia to modern day Alaska. Boats may have been used to cross bering strait after the land bridge disappeared. The people were ice age hunters who followed their food southward then throughout north america. The Maritime theory states that early humans traveled by boats along the west coast of the Americas, boat hopping from one place to another beginning in Russia all the way down to southern Chile. Evidence has been found at a site called Monte Verde 12,500 years ago. According to an encyclopedia article from the website of the Smithsonian Institution that evidence in Australia and Japan indicate boats were in use as far back as 25,000 to 40,000 years ago. The South Pacific\Atlantic theory said that the first people traveled from south asia, australia, indonesia area across the water to Brazil. Also Neves and Hubbe found dozens of skulls from Brazil that appear similar to modern Australians, Melanesians (people from islands in the South Pacific), and sub-Saharan Africans. The …show more content…
Evidence states that they were around 15,000 years ago. Weber, G. Cactus Hill site states that Lynn and Joseph McAvoy found charcoal from a fire pit in clovis hill from 15,000 years ago. On a lower level of Cactus Hill archaeologists also found found blade-type stone tools that appear to have been used for butchering meat and processing hides, but nothing resembling Clovis spear points. Dr. Dennis Stanford states that the Pre-Clovis people may have lived in the Eastern United States include the Meadowcroft rock shelter near Pittsburgh and the Topper site near the Savannah River in South