HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Cabot, The Columbian Exchange, Timeline Of Human Prehistory
12 Jan 2017
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Small group of people already there would move. Indigenous america 7 million years ago 1608. Humans begin their long journey in africa. Homo erectus first humans move and migrate to europe in _______ Homo sapiens migrated to austalia and new guines, had to cross water. Date arrival to no earlier than 12000 bc or 14,000 years ago. Water covered by glaciers, interesting point to consider. Beringia is also called the land bridge, this can be misleading because it is 1000km wide. The land bridge provides one pathway for people to cross. Short costal water travel along the coast. This was most likely the earliest pathway for humans in north america. Between melting of glaciers and 12000 bc people were able to get through them. People who lived south of ice sheets had to have lived down the coast. Humans moved a remarkable pace, in 1000 years they came across both continents (north and south america)
