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5 pages. There are many theories and controversies as to when and how humans first accessed the Americas. Archaeological finds help us to piece together parts of the puzzle but also serve to bring up more questions as well. This paper discusses some of the theories, the controversies and the archaeological finds that might help discover the routes that humans took to get to the Americas. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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but also serve to bring up more questions as well. This paper discusses some of the theories, the controversies and the archaeological finds that might help discover the routes
that humans took to get to the Americas. THEORIES In North America there was a time from 10,000B.C. to 1,000,000, B.C. that was called the Glacial Epoch. During
this time much of North America was covered with ice. Wisconsin, the Ohio River Valley, and Long Island were all covered with ice that in places was up to
a mile thick. Utah, Nevada and Idaho were covered with a body of saltwater of which the Great Salt Lake in Utah is all that is left. Because
of these things, we know that the land masses were extremely different from what they are today and there were different land routes that had to have been taken in
that era. Because there have been no fossil apes found in the New World it means that man probably did not evolve "from lower anthropoid forms" (Polino, 2002, PG) nor
were humans in North America until after Homo Sapiens had developed. Early man had only very limited means of transportation such as walking, so the theory is that he
entered North America using the shortest and easiest route which would have been the land mass along the Bering Strait. Or, he could have had simple watercraft that he
used to cross the Bering Strait. We must remember that the inhabitation of North America did not happen quickly; it was a long, slow process of a few
pockets of people here and there slowly making their way to this land. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS It is impossible to say when man first made use of boats since archaeological
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