Where do human come from?
- For millions of years, monkeys live in forests and jungles (long arms and tails)
- Hot, humid, tropical weather (tall trees: shelters and food)
- Continents constantly move (about 2cm per year), after a few million years, some places became colder, less rain
- Tall trees became woodland or shrubs
- Monkeys must learn to live on the ground to look for food and stay away from enemies
- Evolute to longer legs to stand up and look ahead; shorter arms (no need to swing between trees), shorter tails
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- About 50000 years ago, wise men crossed Bering Strait and arrived in North America (Alaska, Yukon, NWT)
- they were stuck in those locations for about 5000 years. Big ice sheets covered the rest of North America (south of Yukon, NWT)
- we found spear points (sharpened rocks and bones), signs of fire (cooking, keep warm)
- carbon 14 dating – can determine the date when the wood was burned or when the animal bone was formed (within 200 to 300 years)
- they still chased after animals for food (bison, buffalo, mammoth, caribou). Hunt as a group/tribe
- when the ice sheets started melting, they moved south to the rest of Canada, US, Mexico and even South America
- these are the Native People who arrive in North America first, before the Europeans
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