As our book states, there are three periods in which early human life occurred in North America. These three periods are the Paleo-Indian, the Archaic, and the pre-Columbian.
The Paleo-Indian era occurred around ten thousand to fifteen thousand years ago and is when the settlers appeared in America. They traveled to America from Asia in search of food. They traveled, by following the herds of wooly mammoths they were hunting, over a "narrow passage of iced-over land called Beringia" which is southwest of Alaska (Schultz, 2009). This group eventually dispersed throughout North America developing their own individual languages and adapting to the environment in the region in which they decided to settle.
Next, there was the the Archaic which
The Paleo-Indian era occurred around ten thousand to fifteen thousand years ago and is when the settlers appeared in America. They traveled to America from Asia in search of food. They traveled, by following the herds of wooly mammoths they were hunting, over a "narrow passage of iced-over land called Beringia" which is southwest of Alaska (Schultz, 2009). This group eventually dispersed throughout North America developing their own individual languages and adapting to the environment in the region in which they decided to settle.
Next, there was the the Archaic which