Revision Questions
It seems likely that some of the first people to live in America may have been
speakers of Siouan languages. Some of the first Indians in America settled in the
southeast. Last of all to arrive, apparently, were the Eskimo. Most recent arrivals
though they are, however, they were living in their present homeland in what is now
Alaska and Artic Canada more than 2,500 years ago.
Coastal route theory = New research and studies have prompted some
anthropologists and archaelogists to present the theory that people from Southeast
Asia traveled by boat along the coastline and settled in the Western portion of North
America and the Northwestern portion of South America. The theory also helps to
explain how certain artifacts have been found so far from the Bering Strait region
dating before and around the supposed time that humans first came into contact
with the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge.