USA - ANCIENT HISTORY QUIZ
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Asia
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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.]
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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.
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A stone point found near the skeleton of the fossil of an extinct bison.
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The crew of Jesse Figgins of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
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In 1926
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Near Folsom, New Mexico
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August 1927
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Folsom points
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Larger points found near Clovis, New Mexico.
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1937
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Clovis
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Site names Clovis and Folsom are used to refer to the people who used the earliest discovered points.
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The term is used to refer to all the first Americans.
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Mammoth, Mastodon and extinct Bison
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C. Vance Haynes of University of Arizona.
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Clovis archeological sites date from 11500 to 11000 years ago. [ No Clovis point has been dated to be before 12000 years ago ]
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12500 years ago. [ 1000 years older than Clovis points ]