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The early Americans came to what is now America thousands of years ago. They migrated over from Asia by crossing the land bridge called Beringia. They crossed the land bridge while hunting for food because of their nomadic lifestyle. After a while they developed culture because of the Ice Age started to melt which lead to agriculture. They had to get used to these changes, of course it took some time and there was still a nomadic lifestyle but they lived.
During the nomads hunting spree for food they came to cross a land bridge called Beringia. Archeologists believe that they came over to the Americas because of their hunting nomadic lifestyle, and the women and children just followed the men hunting. Archeologists believed that they didn’t cross the land bridge on purpose. When they crossed Beringia, all they saw was ice. That’s where the Ice Age comes in, there were the glaciers and huge ice sheets. Archeologists found this out by carbon dating the artifacts that were left behind. …show more content…

The early Americans came here with caution once they found the animals though it changes the whole story. During the hunting trips they would look for beasts that we call woolly mammoths, mastodon, and saber-tooth tigers. The early Americans would use every single part of these animals. For example the woolly mammoth, the Americans would use the skin for clothes, the ribs for houses, the meat for food, and finally the rest of the bones for weapons. The ice and everything started to melt, and melting ice means more water so that how Beringia became the Bering Strait. The melting of ice made a huge impact on the nomadic lifestyle and to this day we still don’t understand

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