1. Early Human Migration
Chapter 2.2

2. Climate change caused early humans to migrate. From about 1
Climate change caused early humans to migrate.  From about 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago the earth experienced an “ice age”.  Ocean levels dropped and formed a land bridge between Asia and North America.  Land bridges allowed humans to migrate around the world.  

3. As humans moved they had to adapt to their new environments
As humans moved they had to adapt to their new environments.  During the Mesolithic Era (The Middle Stone Age”) 10,000-5,000 years ago humans made great improvements in their lives.  They made better homes, better hunting and fishing techniques, and improved tools.  They developed pottery to carry and preserve food, hollowed out logs for canoes to travel greater distances and may…. have tamed the first pets!