![]() ![]() There, a distinctive spear point was found between the ribs of a type of bison that had been extinct since the end of the last Ice Age. When did the first people arrive and what was their culture like? While Native Americans believe that they have always been here, the first documented Paleoindian culture was found at an archaeological site near Folsom, New Mexico, in 1927. The early immigrants were unaware they entered a new continent as they hunted Beringia's game and gathered plants for food. ![]() The glaciers lowered the sea level by 300 feet, exposing an immense, 1,000-mile-wide plain between Siberia and Alaska known as Beringia. Especially along the coast, the tundra-like plain teemed with animal and plant life, and the ocean provided abundant marine life. Huge glaciers more than a mile thick covered large areas of land in what is now Canada. Most scientists think that the first people entered the Western Hemisphere from Asia over land that connected Siberia and Alaska at the end of the last great Ice (or Pleistocene) Age. ![]() Early Hunters Paleoindians 15,000-8,000 BCE ![]() The following information is taken with permission from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources webpages entitled, " First People: The Early Indians of Virginia." The information from the webpages is taken from the book First People: The Early Indians of Virginia, produced by the Department of Historic Resources, and published by the University Press of Virginia. ![]()
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