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It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice-age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska. The oldest documented Indian cultures in North America are Sandia (15000 BC), Clovis (12000 BC) and Folsom (8000 BC)
Although it is believed that the Indians originated in Asia, few if any of them came from India. The name "Indian" was first applied to them by Christopher Columbus, who believed mistakenly that the mainland and islands of America were part of the Indies, in Asia. |
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There are several different viewpoints - the most commonly held belief is that the ancient peoples of America were able to cross the land bridge from Asia into America.
There are a few who hold the theory that Polynesians (or even Egyptians) built ships and sailed to the Americas... though this is a far stretch, in my opinion. |
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The most commonly held theory says people crossed over from Siberia (Asia), about 16,000 years ago and slowly spread all across North and South America.
Some scientists say that there were other sources too. The Viking colonies up in eastern Canada are pretty well proven, but they were latecomers compared to all the others. There are legends in many of the tribes in Mexico of people coming from the east (Europe or Africa) long before Columbus. Stories exist in China of voyages to lands far to their east. The Polynesians were superb navigators and are known to have crossed vast stretches of Ocean as far as Easter Island, Tahiti, and Hawaii so they could have easily have reached the Americas too. The reed boats used on Lake Titicaca (Peru & Bolivia) are almost identical to boats used in northern Africa. The real story will probably never be known for sure, but there was almost certainly more than one source of people. |
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