The 1st Americans were not who we thought they were For decades, we thought the first humans to arrive in the Americas came across the Bering Land Bridge 13,000 years ago New evidence is changing that picture
Peopling of the Americas - Wikipedia It is believed that the peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years
Who Really Discovered America? — History Facts So who really discovered North America? Let’s take a look, starting at the very beginning Credit: North Wind Picture Archives Alamy Stock Photo The First Humans on the Continent The very first humans emerged in Africa, and migrated from there to regions around the world
When did humans first arrive in the Americas? « Archaeology . . . For decades, the dominant paradigm has been that the first Americans were descendants of populations that migrated from northeast Asia to North America by crossing the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge around 13,000 years ago
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed The tracks showed human activity in the area occurred between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago—a timeline that would upend anthropologists' understanding of when cultures developed in North America
New Study Suggests Humans Arrived In North America 16,000 Years Ago The discovery refutes the long-held theory that North America’s first humans arrived some 13,000 years ago and that they did so by walking the ice-free land bridge between North America and Asia The excavation site has spanned 23 feet by 43 feet between 2009 and 2018