HIST 2055 Lecture : Lecture 1
Document Summary
Massive migration that brought people over the bering land bridge. People could cross it from russia into alaska. Occurred about 20 thousand years ago and lasted 10 thousand. Followed migratory herds of animals which they also fed on. However, dna evidence shows that migration happened 40 thousand years ago. Three migrations: started 40 thousand yrs ago, 12 thousand, and 9 thousand. Genetic evidence states that people could have come from taiwan, by boat. First europeans to set foot on american soil said they saw hundreds of. Estimated 43 to 65 million, on the part that would become the u. s. archeologists estimated between 18-20 million lived there. Rather than live in big cities, most native americans lived in small towns and believed that they inhabited a world full of spirits. There were good spirits and bad spirits, some to hurt you and some to help you.
