Ice Age Discoveries Summary

There is a big question that has been lurking around for years. How did the first people get here? This article is about the first Natives came to the Americas. Some of the most popular theories are the Beringia Theory, the Maritime Theory, the South Pacific Atlantic theory, and the Solutrean Theory. According to the Smithsonian Institution’s website,The Beringia Theory is the theory that people traveled across a land bridge between Siberia and what is now known as Alaska by foot about 11,500 years ago. The video Ice Age Discoveries: New Evidence states that these people were hunters. This video and the The New York Times claimed that these people were Clovis people. The land bridge occurred because of an ice age, and was located …show more content…
Some people sailed across the Pacific towards Chile, and others sailed across the Pacific, south of South America then up to Brazil. According to the Smithsonian Institution website, evidence shows that Australians had boats from 25,000 to 40,000 years ago. National Geographic News reports that Anthropologists Walter Neves and Mark Hubbe found 81 skulls in Brazil. These human remains date from 7,500 to 11,000 years ago. What was surprising about these skulls was that the remains were more like modern Australians and Melanesians rather than Native Americans that have similar traits to Chinese, Mongolians, and Siberians. The Ice Age Discoveries: New Evidence, and The National Geographic News states that The Solutrean Theory is a theory that people followed the pack ice from Europe to the Eastern part of what is now known as The United States of America. They were hunters from Solutrean. According to http://www.kidspast.com/images/migration-into-americas.jpg. Cactus Hill, Topper, and Meadowcroft are places where these hunters were likely to land. These sites contained pre-Clovis people according to Ice Age Discoveries: New Evidence.The website