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Ancient Texans

Discover how the first people arrived in North America and Texas during the Ice Age through the land bridge of Beringia. Learn about prehistoric cultures and the evidence left behind by Hunter-Gatherers. Archaeologists study pictographs and petroglyphs to understand early Texans' way of life.

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Ancient Texans

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  1. Ancient Texans

  2. objectives How did the first people arrive in North America? How do we learn about prehistoric cultures? When did the first people arrive in Texas

  3. Ice age • Glaciers covered most of Canada and Alaska • 14000 to 30000 years ago. • Ocean levels dropped to the bottom of the Bering Strait and it became a dry landmass called Beringia. • Early Asian peoples crossed this land bridge to get to the Americas.

  4. First Americans • Hunter-Gathers • People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals to eat • Arrived over time, following large game herds • Mammoths, buffalo • Ice Age ends 10000 years ago, glaciers melt and Beringia disappears

  5. How do we know this? • Archaeologists: study and learn about past cultures from artifacts (clues) that they findExamples are • Pictographs: pictures, drawn/painted, on cave walls • Petroglyphs: carvings made in the rock

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  8. Pictograph Story Y • Use the pictographs to tell the story of how the ancient Texans arrived in Texas.

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