According to the researchers from where the first Americans arrived in North America?
When did the first American arrive in North America?
How did the first Americans arrive in North America?
Which was the first major discovery in the search for the first Americans?
Who made the first major discovery in the search for the first Americans?
When was the first major discovery in the search for the first Americans made?
What was the location of the first major discovery in the search for the first Americans?
When was the second stone point discovered near Folsom, New Mexico?
With what name the points found at Folsom are known?
What are Clovis Points?
When were the Clovis Points found?
Which are older points; Folsom or Clovis?
Which names are used to refer to the people who used the earliest discovered points?
Who were the Paleo-Indians?
Which were the Ice Age megafauna?
In 1964 which archeologist linked the carbon dates obtained for the Clovis sites with the evidence about the glacial conditions in North America?
How old are Clovis archeological sites found through out the North America?
How old are the artifacts found at Mount Verde in Chile ?
ANSWERS
Asia
According to the geologists the first Americans arrived in North America some 12000 years ago [During the last great Ice Age which ended some 10000 years ago.]
It is believed that they traveled from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge formed when glaciation lowered the sea level and exposed dry land at the Bering Strait.
A stone point found near the skeleton of the fossil of an extinct bison.
The crew of Jesse Figgins of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
In 1926
Near Folsom, New Mexico
August 1927
Folsom points
Larger points found near Clovis, New Mexico.
1937
Clovis
Site names Clovis and Folsom are used to refer to the people who used the earliest discovered points.
The term is used to refer to all the first Americans.
Mammoth, Mastodon and extinct Bison
C. Vance Haynes of University of Arizona.
Clovis archeological sites date from 11500 to 11000 years ago. [ No Clovis point has been dated to be before 12000 years ago ]
12500 years ago. [ 1000 years older than Clovis points ]
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