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Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory Of Early Native Americans

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When learning about early Native Americans it is important to first start at the beginning. Many of us are probably familiar with the Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory. The theory is that the first Native Americans crossed the Bering Strait. Those people came from Asia around 15,000 years ago. This would have happened during the Ice Age. The Bering Strait did not provide much vegetation, which lead to less animals to be hunted. The early people had to make do with smaller mammals for food resources. It is theorized that larger mammals, such as wooly mammoths, would not be able to survive on the little vegetation that grew on the Bering Strait. Towards the end of the ice age the Bering Strait started to get smaller causing the few animals that

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