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North America & Montana Pre-History

North America & Montana Pre-History. Early Montana Pre-Historic Peoples Migration Routes Early People of Present-Day Montana. After the Dinosaurs Huge Mammals Roamed the Americas…. Large Pre-Historic Animals. Woolly mammoth Mastodon Steppe bison Giant ground sloth Giant beaver

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North America & Montana Pre-History

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  1. North America & Montana Pre-History Early Montana Pre-Historic Peoples Migration Routes Early People of Present-Day Montana

  2. After the Dinosaurs Huge Mammals Roamed the Americas….

  3. Large Pre-Historic Animals • Woolly mammoth • Mastodon • Steppe bison • Giant ground sloth • Giant beaver • North American horse • Camel • Saber Tooth Cat

  4. How & When did Humans Arrive in the Americas?

  5. MigrationS • Multiple migrations of pre-historic peoples from Asia • 12,000-30,000 years ago • Land Bridge (Beringia) • -original theory, most widely accepted • Coastal Routes by sea • -additional routes • -recent research seems to confirm multiple routes • Paleo-Indians/Clovis People

  6. Beringia

  7. Land Routes

  8. Land Bridge Siberia North America

  9. Coastal Routes

  10. How do we know this stuff? • Archaeologists and geologists study layers or strata in the earth (bottom layers are older, top layers are newer) • Radiocarbon dating (tests organic materials to determine age) • DNA & Linguistics (compares DNA and languages to find connections between people in different parts of the world)

  11. S T R A T A

  12. Creation Stories • Each Indian tribe today has its own creation story. • Passed down through oral traditions • Some call them legends or myths, but many tribal members believe in these creation stories like members of any other religion. • Many tribes believe they were always here based on their creation stories.

  13. Who were the 1st Americans?Where did they originate? • Differing theories

  14. Kennewick Man • Skeleton found near Kennewick, Washington ½ buried in Columbia River bank • Approx 9300 years old • Unique (“Caucasian” features?) • Umatilla Indian Tribe objected to examination of skeleton • Indian Grave Repatriation Act • Evidence links ancestry to Japan

  15. Family Resemblance?

  16. Movin’ to Montana • Pre-Historic peoples arrived in MT about 12,000 years ago (10,000 B.C.) • People were highly mobile and lived in small groups, which was better for hunting • Followed herds of Mammoth • Before 1600 the only tribes to live in MT were in the western mountains • Kootenai • Flathead or Salish

  17. Paleo-Indians or Clovis People

  18. Pre-Historic Indian Ancestors • Paleo-Indian or Clovis people • Hunter/Gatherers • Named for shape they gave their spear points

  19. Atlatl

  20. THE END

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