Hunters and Gatherers 1.1

A long period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language.

The study of past cultures through the things that remain such as buildings, tools, or pottery.

The careful uncovering of evidence, or clues, from the past.

Objects made from people long ago.

To move from place to place.

Huge ice sheets that covered great stretches of land during the Ice Age.

a period of time when glaciers covered great stretches of land

Archaeologist found a variety of human-made objects near Clovis, New Mexico.

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Beringia, now called the Bering Strait stretched from Asia to North America and during the times of the lowest seas, and Beringia stretched for about 1,000 miles from north to south called a land bridge.

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Albert Goodyear, an archaeologist returned to Topper Site, South Carolina and dug deeper they found small stone tools more than a foot below Clovis artifacts.