1. Migration Theories

2. Why do we move?
Turn N Talk to a partner and make a list of why people move from one place to another. (Share a personal connection to moving).
Create a list as a class

3. Rank the reasons people move placing the most important at the TOP and the least important at the BOTTOM. Compare your ranking to another group's ranking
What is similar on your list compared to the other groups?
What is different on your list compared to other groups?

4. Push vs. Pull Factors Push factors: Negative reasons for
wanting to leave a place (emigrate).
Examples of push factors are a lack of food
or water, natural disasters, a lack of jobs,
and wars.
Pull factors:
Positive reasons for wanting
to move to a place (immigrate). Examples
of pull factors are more food and water, a
better climate, higher wages, and freedom.

5. My List of Push and Pull Factors
Based on the list you created as a class determine which items are push or pull factors for migration.

6. Migration Theory A
The traditional theory is the first Americans crossed the land bridge at the Bering Strait around 11,500 years ago and followed an “ice free corridor” between two large ice sheets, the Laurentide and Cordilleran.

7. These small bands then dispersed throughout the Americas on foot and began settling in areas on both continents.

8. The Clovis People
The general theory has been the first inhabitants of the Americas were the Clovis People.
These first inhabitants, whose archeological sites are scattered across North and South America, were named after a town in New Mexico where fluted spear points were first found

9. Migration Theory B
There is now convincing evidence of human habitation sites that date earlier than the Clovis Culture including sites in South America.
Monte Verde, a well studied site located along a river near southern central Chile, dates 12,500 years ago.
This site contains the buried remnants of dwellings, stone tools including large bifacial projectile points, and preserved medicinal and edible plants.

11. How did people manage to settle this far south at such an early date?
A coastal migration route is now gaining more acceptance. People used boats to move across the Pacific coast into Alaska and northwestern Canada and eventually south to Peru and Chile by 12,500 years ago.