THE EARLY AMERICAS AND EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT: WHAT IS THE LEADING THEORY ABOUT HOW EARLY HUMANS ARRIVED ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENTS?

Question

1. THEY WALKED FROM AFRICA TO SOUTH AMERICA WHEN THOSE TWO CONTINENTS WERE PART OF THE SAME LANDMASS.
2. THEY WALKED FROM ASIA TO NORTH AMERICA OVER A STRIP OF LAND THAT HAS SINCE BEEN COVERED BY THE OCEAN.
3. THEY SAILED IN LARGE SHIPS FROM AUSTRALIA TO NORTH AMERICA.
4. THEY CANOED FROM ANTARCTICA TO SOUTH AMERICA WHEN THE CLIMATE THERE BECAME TOO HARSH.

Answer 1

The leading theory about how early humans arrived on the American continents is:

2. THEY WALKED FROM ASIA TO NORTH AMERICA OVER A STRIP OF LAND THAT HAS SINCE BEEN COVERED BY THE OCEAN.

This theory is known as the Bering Land Bridge theory, which posits that during the last Ice Age, a land bridge connected Asia and North America through the Bering Strait, allowing early humans to migrate into the Americas.