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Seeking the First Americans
- 1981 ----- color ----- 59 min ----- vhs
- (Odyssey series) The earliest inhabitants of the New World came across the Bering Sea land bridge that opened as a result of glaciation. The question of when these people walked from Siberia is still debated by archaeologists. In 1932, a site excavated near Clovis, New Mexico, yielded the bones of extinct animals in association with obviously man-made, skillfully fluted stone points. With the development of radiocarbon dating in the late 1940s, it was determined that "Clovis man" lived between 12,000 and 11,000 years ago. Addresses a number of puzzles associated with the discovery of early man in America, in addition to the question of diffusion of ideas versus migration of people.
- Topics: (Archaeology)
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