Peopling the Americas: The Land Route
by The Land Route theory for how people populated the Americas.
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Since the beginning of time mankind has always questioned who the first people to come to North America, and how they did it. Of the many Theories that currently exist the theory that the first Peoples of the America’s came here by the Land Route is the most reasonable, and the most likely route that was taken.
One of the more believable evidence that was found to support this theory was found through archaeology, it provides a hard physical evidence of the scientist’s and archaeologists theories, instead of just relying on the theory itself. Archaeologists have found many artifacts that help towards developing theories and ideas of how the first peopling of the America’s began. It is one of their primary cites and supporting facts that makes their theory even worth considering; with the land route the amount of artifacts that have been found to support this theory is endless, which is a strong step in the right direction. Some of the artifacts they have found are: spearhead points and early people’s tools, with the identification of the spear heads they can date the time period and where they geographically are on the map plays an important part as well, as to migration and where they moved from and to, to find food. Another supporting string of evidence that was found was using radiocarbon dating, using this form of dating was the primary way to date accurately what time period the uncovered artifacts were used in. Researchers have found spear points up to 12 500 years BP, this crushing the Clovis Theory and making a new way for future development in the archaeology field. They continue to find more and more artifacts that seem to be older and older then the last, which more and more theories and ideas arise from which only, helps the radiocarbon dating way of supporting the theory of the land route. Archaeologists have found spear points up to even 13 500 BP, and indicating at the size of the points, they suggest that they were big game hunters and may have followed herd of animals across Beringia to the America’s in a search of more food. Also, the artifacts found in Siberia and Alaska has shown to be similar, suggesting another supporting fact that they crossed Beringia to reach the America’s.
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Post CommentRichard Welch
On April 28, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Certainly the Beringian route was used in the peopling of the Americas, but it was not the only route. Access to interior America from Beringia would have been next to impossible prior to the Bolling interstadial ca. 14,000 years ago. Yet we have solid evidence (Meadowcroft, Cactus Hill, etc) that the American heartland was occupied many millennia before that. The most likely explanation is some version of the Solutrean hypothesis (See Roots of Cataclysm: Geopulsation and the Atlantis Supervolcano in History).