Hello and welcome to the Saints & Sinners blog for the 2013-2014 school year! I am very excited to be your tour guide through the first half of American history. This blog will expose you to resources, websites, videos, songs, journals, articles, political cartoons and various other historical items you otherwise might never have seen. Be sure to keep up with the blog assignments (each one is a quiz grade!).
For starters let's talk about the theories behind the settlement of North America. If we believe life started in the Garden of Eden, then how in the world did people get to North America? Numerous theories exist about how people came to live in Canada, the United States and Mexico (collectively known as North America), but which one is accurate? How can we tell? Is it possible to ever truly know how the first Americans arrived?
Your assignment for this week's blog is to research possible theories on American migration. In the comments section describe TWO (2) of the theories you found, which website(s) they were located and of the two you picked which seems the most logical.
My first website said, like in our history book, that the natives walked across Beringia the piece of land where the Bering Strait now is. The native were Nomads looking for food. It said that they walked across a "bridge" made out of ice into where Alaska is now.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/anth7_hist1.html#periods
My second website gave a more logical story I think because it said that we all came from Adam and Eve. They lived in Mesopotamia in the garden. The continents were together until the flood like in Genesis 7, so they walked to America. When the flood came the continents were split to where the are now.
http://www.versebyverseministry.org/resource_library/questions_and_answers/how_did_indians_in_north_america_come_from_adam_and_eve/
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My first website that the possibly came by land or sea. Another observation, is that they the crossed over the Beringia. Big hunters could've come also because of the amount of mammoth or prehistoric creatures. Another theory, is that the Ice Age had apart to do with people already in North America. The Bering Strait is by Alaska, Canda, that area. Thinking about this page on the website, the idea that they walked over by an ice bridge during an Ice Age is very possible. Logically, you could think like that. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1106_031106_firstamericans.html
ReplyDeleteJust like the Bible says, Noah built an Ark for the flood God sent. God warned the people. The continents were together untill God sent the flood. Most likely, they walked over to North America, and logically this seems correct from a Christian Worldview. The Bible tells us about this. Just like the flood in Gensis 7. (143)
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2010/05/28/feedback-native-americans-and-bible
My first website says that they crossed the Beringia. Just like our history book.rchaeologist have found out that the first Americans migrated into North America to Asia. They also track large mammoths.
ReplyDeletehttp://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/hight-kreitman/land-bridge-theory
My second website said they traveled by boat. It says that just didn't travel through the ice glaciers. And they may have gotten more previously than expect it. This one seems more logical to me.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ancient/coastal-route.htm
1. Theory that humans came when sea levels were lower around the end of the last ice age. They call these pioneers the Clovis culture after stone tools that were found near Clovis, New Mexico. They are believed to have been swept across the continent.
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2. One theory claims that the 1st Americans didn't cross the Bering Land Bridge, but by boat across the Atlantic Ocean. These people are called the Solutrean culture. This theory, however, has little evidence, but are claimed to be from Europe.
www.nps.gov/bela/history/culture/other-migration-theories.htm
My first website said people sailed from Asia to the coasts of South America and North America about 14,000 years ago. Many scholars do not believe that because they say there was ice blocking boats from sailing. But the person writing this article said the ice melted about 17,000 years ago.
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My second website says that there were either of two routes. One was by sea, as above, the other one was across Beringia. Because the ice from the Ice Age took up much of the earth's water, Beringia was formed connecting parts of Asia to parts of North America.
http://www.athenapub.com/10Dixon.htm
My first website talked about the Clovis people, named after a city in New Mexico where artifacts of these people were found. They are said to have come across to North America by walking across the Beringia when sea levels were low at the end of the ice age.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nature.com/news/ancient-migration-coming-to-america-1.10562
My second website told me that some archaeologists believe that the Paleo Indians were the first people in North America and their habitation occurred during the end of the last ice age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas
The Land Bridge Theory says that the first people to come to America crossed a frozen land bridge, called Berinigia, while tracking large game herds. The people that crossed the bridge are called the Clovis because their spear points were found near Clovis, New Mexico. The Clovis people reached America around 13,000 years ago. However, archeologists found evidence that people crossed from Asia to America sometime between 15,000 and 25,000 years ago. During that time, there were huge glaciers in northeastern Asia, and huge ice sheets in most of Canada, New England, and a few states which made it more difficult to migrate. I think this is more logical.(109)
ReplyDeletehttp://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/hight-kreitman/land-bridge-theory
My second website talks about the Kelp Highway Hypothesis theory. The theory is that the first people to get to America traveled by boat, and that there were a lot of kelp forests. These kelp forests reduce wave energy. The kelp forests were found next to some coastal archaeological sites. The study’s lead researcher says that “they may have acted as a kelp highway”. The kelp forests also provide food resources such as shellfish, fish, sea mammals, and seabirds. The people migrating across the land bridge would have had to go through several different landscapes such as tundra, forests, and deserts. (101)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060221085837.htm
In the first article that I read, the theory that the author supported was the theory that the migrants crossed the land bridge that connected Alaska to Asia. The author was saying that the Clovis hunters were not the first people to cross the land bridge and enter into America. This article was on nature.com.
ReplyDeleteIn the second article that I read, the author was stating that the migrants came over in boats rather than crossing the land bridge. He supports the view that the land would have been too unstable to cross by foot. This article can be found on adbnews.go.com.
I think that the crossing in boats theory is more logical because there was such a short distance between the two continents that it would have been easy to cross in a boat.
My first website said that the sea level was much lower than what it is today. There was land connecting Siberia and Alaska together; people lived on this land bridge but never went all the way across it. Years later they went to North America.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm/discover-alaska/FAQs/7
My second website says there was a small group of hunters that followed prehistoric animals to a land bridge. This bridge was formed during the last Ice Age. This bridge was linked from Asia to Alaska and Canada. Glaciers began to retreat and an ice-free corridor opened. This allowed people to cross to North America. However, the have been indications that these people traveled on foot and on boat as well.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1106_031106_firstamericans.html
I think the second website is more logical because it tells how hunters found the land bridge. Also, people did know how to build boats and they could have used the boat to go to the land bridge or to get onto the boat and arrive at Alaska.
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My first website says the early humans traveled along the Northwest coast by watercraft. There is a picture that shows arrows pointing in the direction of the route right beside the Bering Land Bridge.
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My second website says, what is probably the most common route, that they traveled across Beringia, the land bridge. It connected Siberia and Alaska. Most of the other comments include this one too.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/human-migration3.htm
The second route makes more sense to me. It is during an ice age so wouldn't the water be frozen over or at least very icy? I would assume so. I do not know how they could travel through water by boat, or any other watercraft. You can not float in ice because that does not make sense. The land bridge makes more sense because there is going to be a lot of ice. It could easily form a bridge that they could travel across. (154)
Theory 1:
ReplyDeleteThe earliest people to come to the Americas were said to have followed the large game over Beringia. The people originally came from Siberia. Beringia connected Asia to Alaska. When the ice started to melt, pathways going all the way down to South America formed and the people crossed.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1106_031106_firstamericans.html
Theory 2:
Another radical Theory, is that the first Americans came by boat. It is said they came across the Atlantic ocean. The artifacts found were of ancient European culture somewhat similar to the Clovis tools. That suggests humans came from the east.
http://www.nps.gov/bela/historyculture/other-migration-theories.htm
I think theory 1 is most logical because Beringia did exist.The hunters back then were nomads and could have crossed during the ice age.
My first website talked about how the first Americans weren't the supposed Clovis hunters who came in search of food, but instead a migration of people much before them from Asia, whether over the Bering land bridge or in boats coming from Siberia.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nature.com/news/ancient-migration-coming-to-america-1.10562
The second said that the Clovis came before the Ice Age because they couldn't possibly came from Siberia in that short of a time period. The theory states that the Clovis came gradually over the land bridge through multiple migrations.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/25/science/sci-landbridge25
I think that the second is more logical because it would have taken a long time for so many people to cross all the way from Siberia to North America.
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My first website talked about the Bering Strait Theory. The Bering Strait was a land bridge that supposedly went from Siberia to America and the people who migrated over were following large game.
ReplyDeletehttp://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/hight-kreitman/land-bridge-theory
My second site said that people from Asia, Australia, or Siberia could have traveled to North America by land and sea. This is supported by the theory that migrating peoples main food sources were from land and sea.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/theories.html
I think that the second one is more logical because the Bering Strait does not exist on the globe today and I believe that people could have had the skills to row themselves from wherever they came from to North America.
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www.answers.yahoo.com
ReplyDelete1. This website's theory was that people were using the Bering Strait to cross from Asia to North America. The Strait was available to them because glaciers left from the Ice Age had receded enough to allow them to cross. The website states that the glaciers melted away about 14,000 years ago.(51 words)
www.usnews.com
2. This website's theory says that nomads used some sort of boat to explore the other regions of the earth. They state that their route led along the coast of Siberia to North America. (33 words)
The second website's theory seemed the most plausible because the first website had many different opinions on the date of the glaciers melting away. That sense of uncertainty leaves me to believe that the second site is more accurate. (39 words)
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