There are many different theories on how Native Americans reached the Americas. The three most widely accepted theories are the land bridge theory, the coastal route theory, and the across the atlantic theory. All three theories are highly debated. The theory that is the most plausible its the land bridge theory.
The land bridge theory states that Native Americans crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to the Americas. The land bridge theory was created by Jose de Acosta in 1590 and has been accepted since 1930. It is believed that the first Americans crossed over the land bridge while tracking game. Archeologists believe that the first Americans migrated across the land bridge between eleven and fourteen thousand years ago during the last ice age. As the ice melted the sea level rose covering the land bridge and trapping the immigrants in America. The land bridge theory is the most plausible theory because it could have been completed with the limited kind of technology they had at the time and there is evidence to support it.
The coastal route theory states that Native Americans reached the Americas by
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It states that Native Americans are descended from Eastern Europeans that sailed across the Atlantic and reached the Americas. There is little evidence to support this theory making it hard to believe.Some people believe this theory to be plausible because of DNA similarities of both native Americans and Siberians. The DNA evidence used to support the theory was from a 24,000 year old arm bone of a Siberian child. They have also found other DNA from the same site from around 17,000 years ago which shows the same genetic traits. Those are the only scraps of evidence that supports the across the Atlantic theory. This theory is the least plausible because they they would have needed to have advanced technology, knowledge, and supplies to have survived the long and treacherous journey across the Atlantic
This theory is that the colonists had been attacked by indians which the colonists believed to be the Croatans. Scientists assume that the colonists survived the first attack from the indians which could have given them time to write the sprawlings on the gate. Then they believe that the second attack left the colonists either dead or taken prisoner. This theory makes sense but there are some faults that just don’t add up. The first fault is that if they had been at war with the indians why had there they been no blood drops or bodies when John White returned? . Some people believe that there had been no blood drop or bodies because the colonists had gone and attacked the indians ,but others some people say that colonists were smart and wouldn't have done that. The second fault is why wouldn’t have the colonists have explained more on the gate of the colony then just writing one word, Croatans?. This one can be easily avoided because some say that the colonists had been attacked while they were writing Croatans.
Alan Taylor is trying to prove that the story of America does not begin with the American Revolution. When, humans first encountered America between 12, 000- 15,000 years is where the story of American first starts. Alan Taylor's thesis is true because, prior to the American Revolution the Siberians arrived in America and settled from the tip of South America to as high as Alaska. Later European empires invaded and conquered several regions of America. Alan Taylor proves that the settlement of America does not begin in the 1492 but rather about 12,000 to 15,000 years earlier. The early Americans migrated from North Eastern Asia and entered in small boats along the coast. Some other hypothesis is that the earliest humans walked along a land
In the article written by Heather Pringle, “The First Americans,” she combines findings of various archaeologists across the globe that have aimed to debunk a popular theory of migration to the Americas. As stated in the article, it is commonly believed that the first to arrive in the New World traveled across the Bering Straight, a passageway far north connecting the northeastern tip of Asia and Alaska. 13,000 years ago, these hunters were said to have followed the mammals and other large prey over the ice-free passageway. Evidence of their stone tools being left behind has led them to be called the Clovis people. This article uncovers new evidence presented by archaeologists that people migrated to the Americas in a different way, and much earlier.
If Native Americans were able to sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the time shortly before Christopher Columbus, would they have been able to conquer and colonize countries like Spain or Portugal? Assuming this were even possible, there are a significant factor that would have given the old world an upper hand in such a scenario. This paper will show that even if the Native Americans would have been the first to reach out and make contact, history would have still favored the Iberians.
The most widely understood theory of human beginnings in the Americas involves a land bridge that would have “extended over what is now the Bering Strait and linked north-eastern Siberia to Alaska.” A migration of this sort would have necessarily occurred prior to 9,500 BCE during the last of Earth’s glacial maximums. During this glacial period the sea levels would have been relatively low, exposing the areas of Beringia that are currently underwater. This land bridge — as it is often referred — would have supported large herds of several species of megafauna, such as mammoth, bison, and horses. Paleolithic hunters and gatherers could have easily followed these herds out of the Eurasian tundra and into North America.
The first Indians to set foot in the western hemisphere were the Paleo-Indians. The Paleo-Indians crossed the land bridge called the Beringia (Roark 6). They are estimated to have arrived at least by 14,000 BP (Roark 6). Research shows that the Paleo-Indians
There were more than 500 different Indian tribal cultures that existed in North America before the first Europeans arrived. They had lived in America already thousands of years, but for Europeans this continent was unknown until 15 century. Every schoolboy knows that Columbus is the discoverer of the "New World." This traditional fact is quite ironic, because the "hero" even did not understood that he had found a new continent - he thought he was in India.
What were the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans arrived? North America was quite advance for its time. It consisted of large scale trade network, well irrigated, many thruways, cities and huge structures. The Indians were quite primitive when comparison to the Europeans gadgets. How did Indian and European ideas of freedom differ on the eve of contact? Europeans thought the Indians were too liberated and lacked organization while the Indians believed more in community and kinship structure building. What impelled European explorers to look west across the Atlantic? The reason for their exploration across the west is due to imports and export and to spread religion to foreign countries. What happened when
Even though many archaeologists accept this theory, there is no persuasive evidence to support it. Despite the fact that the article discussed different possibilities of who the first Americans might be and where they might have come from, it did not conclude on a precise explanation of who they are or where they are from. Instead, the article concludes by pointing out that the Clovis culture "is too widespread, is found in too many environments" and has too many diverse activities to be the product of the first immigrants in America. According to the article, spearheading would most likely be the first American invention, and that the Clovis people probably made their way of living by trading these inventions.
The Roanoke colony theories range from aliens being involved in there disappearance to the position of the moon with the ocean but no one knows what happened for sure. I think that both theories are possible but the theory about them living with the Native Americans is more likely because it would be hard for them to have made a boat to cross the ocean in. Which theory do you think is more likely to have
The Native Americans For at least fifteen thousand years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and Thomas Hariot, Native Americans had occupied the vastness of North America undisturbed by outside invaders (Shi 2015 pg. 9). Throughout the years leading up to Columbus’s voyage to the “New World” (the Americas) and Hariot’s journey across the sea, the Indians had encountered and adapted to many diverse continents; due to global warming, climatic and environmental diversity throughout the lands (2015). Making the Native Americans culture, religion, and use of tools and technology very strange to that of Columbus’s and Hariot’s more advanced culture and economy, when they first came into contact with the Native Americans. To start with,
The going theory of the First Americans is the ever-popular land bridge hypothesis, which connected Siberia and Alaska. This is believed to have happened at least twice during the ice ages between 32,000 and 36,000 years ago and, again between 13,000 and 28,000 years ago. This repeated connection took place where the eastern and western hemispheres come the closest to one another. The best illustration that I found explaining the land bridge was the analogy made to a seesaw. On one side being the glaciers and on the other side is sea level. When the glaciers get bigger or "go up" the sea level withdraws or "goes down". Basically when all the earth's water is in the form of snow or ice sea level is lowered. At least 180 feet lower to form that Siberian land connection. Direct proof of this...
The most posing problems with the set routes to Asia, which went around the Cape of Good Hope and along the coast of Africa, were that it was very dangerous due to enemy colonies along the route and was also very long. These problems made some people, including Christopher Columbus, decide to turn to the west to find safer and faster routes to the riches of Asia. What they found was the Americas. Believing that he would reach Asia, Columbus accidentally found a new continent, full of new riches and unclaimed lands. All of this occurred near the end of the Renaissance, beginning with the founding of America in 1492, near the end of the 15th century.
Fifteen to forty thousand years ago the first settlers of America came to the land by way of the Bering Straight. Some believe the Pacific Ocean was much lower than it is now and these early migrants could have walked across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. Others believe they used small Kayaks or walked across an ice cap. These first settlers were the Paleolithic ancestors of the Native Americans. These Asians were nomadic hunters and found the land while following herds of animal’s eastward. After the first band of settlers many more came who soon spread across what is now the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Present day archaeologists have unearthed many Paleolithic artifacts such as campsites, primitive tools and weapons of the early settlers. With the ability to carbon 14 test these artifacts, scientists were able to confirm that they were here as early as 4000 BC.
The ancestors of the indigenous peoples (Amerindians) were originally from Central East Asia and came across by means of the land and ice bridge which connected Siberia and Alaska at the time in the area what is now known as the Bering Strait to North America during the ice Age about 50,000 years ago They were nomadic peoples who followed their Food and this is presented as a Factor that accounted for them wandering from Asia into North America. Some continued to the east and settled in the cold sub artic regions others Wandered southward through North, Central and South America, Evolving distinct physical and cultural characteristics. Three distinct groups developed societies in parts of the Caribbean and in Central and South Americas. The Tainos were located in Jamaica. Hispaniola, Cuba, Puerto Rico and some parts of the Bahamas and Trinidad. The Kalinagos in Grenada, Tobago, St Vincent, St Kitts and Nevis, Puerto Rico ,Hispaniola and Trinidad . The Mayans were located in Mexico, Belize, Honduras and Guatemala. These societies were organized primarily on a political, religious, economic and social basis (Amerindians to Africans 3rd edition, Dyde et al.2008)