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  Who were the earliest people in the Americas?From roughly 15,000 years ago—the end the last Ice Age—archaeologists find the first scientific evidence of modern people in the Americas. Ancestors of today’s Indigenous peoples of the Americas, these early modern peoples created thriving societies and later adapted successfully to different environments throughout the Americas after the end of the Ice Age. No one knows for sure how the first people came to the Americas. Archaeologists look to different kinds of evidence to tell their story about the early Americas, including artifacts, DNA, blood types, and language. These types of evidence indicate that the first peoples migrated to the Americas from Asia, although there are different ideas about the exact migration routes. Many Indigenous peoples have oral histories of how their people came to the Americas. Differing from culture to culture, these important stories sometimes describe the origin of the world or how people originally journeyed from other places. Continue to How many different cultures and languages existed in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans? >> back >> |
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