1. Be ready to share your idea on how the first people came to the Americas. Think for 30 seconds. Share for 20 seconds.

2. No one knows exactly when the first people arrived in North America
No one knows exactly when the first people arrived in North America. No one is sure exactly how the first people arrived in the Americas either. There are a couple of theories though. Let’s watch a video on one theory.

3. Bering Straits

5. came in small bands over thousands of years
Between 30,000 and 12,000 B.C.
came in small bands over thousands of years

6. ate small game animals, nuts, berries
Between 30,000 and 12,000 B.C.
hunter-gathers:
ate small game animals, nuts, berries

7. Read pgs 29 and 30 section “Learning About the Prehistoric Past” to yourself.

8. Prehistory is the time BEFORE recorded history. What does that mean?
Europeans provided the first RECORDED history in North America.
Native Americans did leave EVIDENCE of their existence though, through artifacts. What are some examples of artifacts?
What is a pictograph?
What is a petroglyph?
Who is an archeologist?

12. Ch. 2.1: Prehistoric Cultures pg. 28

13. Migration
video

14. Migration
video

15. early humans crossed land bridge from Asia to Alaska
Between 30,000 and 12,000 B.C.
early humans crossed land bridge from Asia to Alaska

16. Paleolithic Era

17. Paleolithic Era
followed mammoths

18. Paleolithic Era
lived in small groups
travel on foot

19. Paleolithic Era
ice age ended
climate changed

20. Paleolithic Era
Mammoths died out

21. At the bottom add:
pemmican

22. Paleolithic and Archaic

23. Archaic Era

24. Atlatl helped throw spears with more force.
Archaic Era
Atlatl helped throw spears with more force.

26. travel in bands (small groups)
Archaic Era
travel in bands (small groups)

27. Archaic Era
used tools

28. Late Prehistoric Era

29. still hunted & gathered
Late Prehistoric Era
some lived in villages
still hunted & gathered

30. buffalo hunting culture lived on the plains
Late Prehistoric Era
buffalo hunting culture lived on the plains