History
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Discovery of America
Paleo-Indians
the term "Paleo Indians" is generally used to refer to early Native Americans up through the end of the Ice Age (c.8000 B.C.). Most authorities believe they entered North America from Siberia as small bands of migratory big game hunters. Such a journey could have been made by means of a land bridge, known as Beringia (Bering Strait) from Siberia to Alaska
they were nomadic hunters/gatherers of wild plants and migrated with families called bands; they also hunted using stone projectile points attached to wooden shafts to hunt/butcher animals
Clovis Point Hunters - necessity was the mother of invention, as Paleo-Indians had to devise a more efficient technology to feed an increase population and thus invented the Clovis point; these Paleo-Indians migrated from place to place looking for large mammals to kill; they generally built camps near sources of water that attracted game animals and houses in......
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