World History › Section G · The ancient Americas and Africa › Topic G.1
Populating and settling the Americas
The Americas were the last habitable continents that people reached, and how and when they arrived is one of archaeology's liveliest debates. This topic follows the first Americans from Ice Age Beringia to the beginnings of farming, and out across the Pacific.
In this topic
- The last continents
- Beringia and the Ice Age
- Two possible routes south
- Worked example: the end of "Clovis first"
- Clovis hunters and the lost giants
- Adapting to many lands
- Fishing the Andean coast
- Farming begins, more than once
- Worked example: redating maize
- Across the Pacific
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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