Essay - The First Peoples of the Americas and Their Times of...

The First Peoples of the Americas and Their Times of Arrival According to Geologists and Meteorologists"

One of the earliest known inhabitants ***** the New World, or ***** Americas, which eventually became the United States of America, are said to be the Indians that originated from Asia. Studies have shown that ***** first people of America came during the end of the Ice Age. These first inhabitants came by way of a l*****nd bridge that connects Siberia and Alaska "at ***** Arctic Ocean" (Kane and Keeton 1995). Called the Bering land *****, this bridge surfaced after the sheets of ice th***** completely covered the ***** Ocean had melted as a result of the ***** ***** Ice Age. This l*****nd ***** carried the first known inhabitants of *****, and they carried with them stone tools that ***** characteristics ***** the Paleolithic Period (Stone Age). The Ice Age was also called the Pleistocene Epoch, ***** ***** inhabitants of America ***** this time period are called the PaleoIndians (Micros*****t Encarta 2002). Because of the dominant existence ***** these particular group of settlers in early America, this period was also popularly known as the PaleoIndian Era, and many archaeologists and geologists had found evidence that support and describe ***** kind of ***** (their physical traits and built) and their culture of the PaleoIndian Era. The main focus of this paper will be ***** establishment ***** the thesis that the first ***** inhabitants of ***** were the PaleoIndians of ***** Ice Age ***** *****. This thesis will ***** supported by studies ***** secondary sources ***** support this claim. In addition to the geological *****s found, brief information of the kind of life and culture of ***** Paleo*****dians will be discussed.

***** have been debates over the time when the first ***** ***** to ***** Americas. Many scholars contend the fact that there can be no inhabitants prior ***** the end ***** the ***** Age because America is *****t passable during ***** time ***** of the large bodies of water surrounding it, and ***** ***** of ice that c*****ed it as a result ***** the Ice Age. However, as the ***** Age neared *****s end, a l*****nd bridge connecting Siberia (of the Asian continent) to Alaska (of ***** Northern American continent), called the Bering land *****, was said to be the means by which the PaleoIndians ***** reached the *****. The end of the Ice ***** was 70,000 years ago, but many ***** say that ***** ***** had come to America only about 10-28,000 years ago, which is in contrast ***** an earlier study that they arrived 50-40,000 years ***** (K*****e and Keeton 1995).

The existence of the PaleoIndians was ***** by evidence found in various states of ***** country. Although there were scarce evidence ***** a human skeleton that will reveal the kind of human who lived during the PaleoIndian Era, the presence and discovery of hunting tools and artifacts made it possible for researchers to establish what ***** of people and culture ***** lived