Mexican History 1st period

By aleaboo
  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 60,000 BCE

    Theory of Africa moving

    • Out of Africa (~200,000 – 60,000 years ago)
    • Modern humans (Homo sapiens) originated in Africa.
    • Groups began migrating out between 60,000–80,000 years ago, spreading across Asia, Europe, and later the Americas.
  • Period: 21,000 BCE to 17,000 BCE

    Solutrean hypothesis

    (~21,000 – 17,000 years ago)
    • Suggests that people from Ice Age Europe (Solutrean culture) crossed the Atlantic along ice sheets using boats.
    • Very controversial and not widely accepted
  • Period: 20,000 BCE to 15,000 BCE

    Coastal migration

    (~20,000 – 15,000 years ago)
    • Early people traveled by boat along the Pacific coastlines of Asia and the Americas.
    • Explains how humans could have reached the Americas before inland ice-free corridors opened.
  • Period: 16,000 BCE to 13,000 BCE

    Land bridge

    (Beringia) (~16,000 – 13,000 years ago)
    • Humans crossed from Siberia to Alaska via the Bering Land Bridge exposed during the Ice Age.
    • Most traditional theory for the first peopling of the Americas.