Migration
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Americas
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Migration Theories
How did Ancient People
may have first reached the
Western Hemisphere.
How can we Code the Theories?
Atlantic
Bering Land Bridge
Coastal Pacific
Sea/ Polynesian
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with you shoulder partner
A will read odd paragraphs B will read even
Shared Annotating
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Develop a bullet list of important facts and
Vocabulary from each section.
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• What Happened?
– Nomads migrated following the big game across the
Land bridge through the treeless Ice Corridor into the
North American Great Plains
Inland Route
InlandRoute
Route
Inland
• When Did it Happen?
12,00 - 15,000 years ago
Inland Route
• Who were they?
• Nomads Hunter and Gathers
Some 11,500 years ago one
of America's earliest families
laid the remains of a 3-yearold child to rest in their home
in what is now Alaska. The
discovery of that burial is
shedding new light on the life
and times of the early
settlers who crossed from
Asia to the New World,
Inland Route
• Where did they
come from?
– Asia
Inland Route
• How did they get here?
– Walked following the Big
Game Animals
The Archaeology News Network: 25,000 yearold human footprints found in Mexico.
Inland Route
• Why did they come?
– Followed the big game looking for food.
• Problems with
this theory?
– Archeological
site dating
back as far as
35,000 years
ago indicates
people arrived
before the
land bridge
opened up.
Inland Route
Coastal Route
• What Happened?
• People migrated from Village to Village
moving along the Asian coast into the North
America Continent
Coastal Route
• Who were
they?
• Fisherman
with
Marine
Skills
Coastal Route
• Where did they come from?
• Asia
Coastal Route
• How did they get here?
• By boat and by foot village to village
Coastal Route
• Why did they come?
• Looking for better fishing grounds
• Tribes split and groups looking for new location
home
• This migration is generational (take 100 to
thousands of years to reach the Americas)
Coastal Route
• Problem?
• Because of Global warming the Ice sheet melt
resulting in sea level rise the coast with all the
evidence is submerged under the waves.
Sea Route
• What Happened?
• People moved from Island to Island
• Island Hopping
Sea Route
• When did it Happen?
• 35,000 years ago ??????
Sea Route
• Who were they?
• Islanders/ Polynesians
Replicas of traditional
Hawaiian huts along
with original rock walls
and platforms dot
Lapakahi State
Historical Park
Sea Route
• Where did they come from?
• Polynesia, Indonesia, South pacific
Sea Route
• How did they get here?
• Boat - Island to Island
Sea Route
• Why did they come?
• Looking for food
– New lands
Social Political
Disagreements with authorities motivated small
groups to move from one Island to another to create
New kingdom (in some cases forced exile)
OOPs factor (Lost at sea)
Sea Route
• Problem?
• Long distance from closet Island to south
America through shark infested waters.
• If they skirted along the Antarctic all evidence
would have sunk below the wave as the
Antarctic melted in Period of global warming.