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The first Americans (American Indians) arrived here in North America approx. 13,500 BCE or approx. 15,000 years prior to the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus. According to radiocarbon dating by Dr. Scott Elias, at the University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, lowering sea levels created the 55 mile long Bering land bridge about 14,000 B.C.E and by 10,500 B.C.E., rising sea water had submerged the bridge beneath what is now known as the Bering Strait. Early evidence indicates that it was only when an ice-free corridor through Yukon and Alberta opened up that the new Indian settlers migrated southward. Scientific evidence links American Indian populations to central Asia and eastern Siberia. Today, American Indians closely resemble some central and eastern Asian populations in outward appearance, the distribution of blood group types, and genetic composition as reflected by molecular data, such as DNA.
N.B. The American Indians were not exiled from India and did not leave under religious pressure. After all, Judaism began in the Middle-East circa 1,800 BCE, Buddha wasn't even born until 563 BCE and Buddhism began in India circa 600 B.C.E. Though Jesus was born around year 0, there is no clear beginning of the Christian religion, however, Armenia was the first country to make it their official religion in 301 CE. Lastly, Mohammad wasn't born until circa 570 CE (a thousand years after Buddha and 570 years after Jesus) and Islam wasn't founded until circa 620 C.E. so, relatively, it is a young religion. American Indians left Asia WAY before any of these religions ever existed. Their reasons for crossing the Bering land bridge were a combination of tribal disagreements and simply following migrating animals for food.
First Americans
From an Article by "Icabod" Wasiechu of Comcast.
The first people into the Americas were nomadic hunters. They didn't plan to come here, they followed the migrations of the game. There was no point where somebody said "hey, welcome to the New World" Like most people, they were interested in getting enough to eat and leaving things a bit better for their children. We don't consider them "Native Americans" as they weren't born here and they predate the development of today's Native Americans(Indians). Rather we call them "PaleoIndians."
They walked across dry land from Asia. The great ice age lowered the water of the Bering strait and created a new land, Beringia. Beringia is generally thought to have been a flat plain, dry and dusty. It did support plant and animal life.
Once in the Americas, they found the passage south blocked. The ice sheets from the Rockies had merged with the ones from the Hudson Bay region. An important part about the Bering land bridge was that when it existed, the ice blocked the way to what would be the United States. When the ice melted, the land bridge disappeared, but the way south was open.
The date they arrived is in dispute and keeps being pushed back. The land bridge existed between 10,000 and 25,000 yeas ago. Supposedly the way south wasn't open much before 12,000 years ago. At the same time sites in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Chile have been dated to 16,500 years ago. Current thought is that people were in Alaska at least 18-22,000 years ago and found a way South.
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When did the first settlers cross the Bering strait?
the people who first settled were the Cherokee Indians.
Where the first American inhabitants from?
There was a land bridge across the Bering Strait and people following the herds through time came into North America. They came from Asia, Europe, and Africa. The first humans were in Africa and slowly spread around the earth.
What route do experts think the first Americans took to reach North America?
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What is the name of the ice bridge that the first people from Asia crossed to Alaska?
The real name is "Land-Bridge" And it is the Bering Strait.
Where did I dians first land in America?
No one knows how the Native Americans got to America, but there is a theory called the "land-bridge theory" that offers an explanation that many agree with. The northern American aboriginals walked across from Siberia to Alaska thousands of years ago when the ice age froze up huge amounts of water in the Bering Strait.
How did the first Americans get here?
I think the first american's got here by crossing the Bering Strait which is now underwater. ;)
Why was the bering strait important to the early native Americans?
It is believed that when the first humans came to North America there was exposed land connecting Siberia and Alaska, where the Bering Strait is now, and that is how they entered the continent.
What explorer discovered the bering strait?
The Bering Strait is named after the Danish explorer Vitus Bering, who was the first European to explore the strait in 1728 on an expedition for the Russian Navy.
How did of Native Americans first migrate to north and south America?
the first Americans came from Asia and crossed what is now the bering strait it was land then. they came by foot to get food
Who fond North Carolina?
Tartar Mongolians, approx. 10,000B.C., first of The Great Four Migrations across what is now the Bering Strait
Who crossed the bering strait first?
Semen Dezhnev
What is the name of the ice bridge the Asians used when they first came to this as Native Americans?
It's called the Bering Strait Crossing if I'm not wrong.
What is the Name of this Strait in the North Pacific that once connected these two continents and allowed for Native Americans to be the first people of the continent?
Bering Strait. They weren't Native Americans, however, they were people from the Kamchatka Peninsula; from the nation of Rus, or Russians.
How did the first people reached America?
the first humans reached North America during the Ice Age when they were following animals during the Ice Age. The animals were looking for a warmer area to live so they had crossed the Bering Strait, a land bridge that connected Asia to North America, the first Americans had crossed the Bering Strait.
What was waterway did the first American civilization emerge?
bering strait
When did the first Americans come across from bering strait?
Somewhere roughly around 60 or 70 thousand years ago. They came across the ice-bridge that connected northern Asia to North America.
How did the first humans get to north America?
the first humans reached North America during the Ice Age when they were following animals during the Ice Age. The animals were looking for a warmer area to live so they had crossed the Bering Strait, a land bridge that connected Asia to North America, the first Americans had crossed the Bering Strait.
