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- Quick study: Paleoindian Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Paleoindian Period and its key characteristics.
- First peoples
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.1
- Beringia was a wide land bridge between Alaska and Siberia that was periodically exposed during the last Great Ice Age. According to a widely-held theory, the first people to live in North America were Asians who followed animal herds across Beringia. The Paleoindians living in North Carolina by 9000 BCE were descendents of these first North Americans. Nobody knows how long it took before the first Paleoindians reached North Carolina, but the few artifacts they left create an image of their past.
- Format: article
- Theories of migration
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.1
- In this lesson, students will read about and evaluate differing theories about the migration of the first people to the Americas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The pathfinders
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.2
- An essay covering the pathfinders of the Paleoindian Period. Learn about the trek across Beringia and the lifeways of these early American Indians.
- Intrigue of the Past
- Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
