America Before Columbus

The "Clovis" People

• Estab. one of the 1st civilizations in the Americas
• Among the1st people to make tools and to eat other animals
• Migrated from Siberia across the bering land bridge into Alaska. Then moved southward to warmer regions (including New Mexico)

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Diversity!

• Much more diverse and scattered than originally believed
• Evidence suggests that not all the early migrants came across the Bering Strait

The Archaic Period

• Continued to support themselves by hunting and gathering
• Used stone tools and hunted w/spears
• Developed new tools such as nets and hooks for fishing, traps for smaller animals, and baskets for gathering berries, nuts and seeds.

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• Later groups began to farm (Most important crop was CORN, but they grew other crops such as beans and squash)

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