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°o Hunters roaming ‘over 10,000 years ago in ove 10000 Yaa | much like the kayaks used by modern-day ‘nu Ihrizona used this large Spear point to kill 9 ‘really mammoth. charred bones at ancie 4 cuarren 1 Peopling the Americas ‘tromas Canby t00k a trip 40,000 years into the past. Canby, writer with Tomas Geographic magazine, spent a year with archaeologists 25 1° searched Nationa ed ates around the Western Hemisphere to learn more about Nas Fae nd thet world, The fragile skeletons and artifacts uncovered Py ws a ere ciogists painted for Canby a stunning picture of that time A PERSONAL VOICE Arse ord it was To se it propery, we must Board a time machi What 2 wie into the ee Age. The northern half of North Amenca Nes Cot ad rave a uate sees two miles thick Stretching south to Kentucky ished oof ears crust with thei weight... Animals grow overse they Duce mi jaguars stand as tall as ions, beavers grow 25 BIg 3 oat Elephant ati isthe as tal 2s gates, With artic cold pushing 49 fr contr Sot pag on Virgina beaches, and musk-oxen graze from Maryland {0 California. THOMAS cAvly, Te Search forthe Fest erica,” Navonl Geographies 1978 ‘Through the work of archaeologists, and the words of writers 2 2 Canby user coma ser Through stAmericans today are able to see what it might have Deen Te live among the first allve, and Aetna chapter, you wil lear about three complex societies at intersected in North Americans ate 1400s: the European, the West African, and the Native America There are several reasons to begin an American history book this way 1a ear eed tates sa nation of immigrants, and this patter of immigration has been preset since the yery dawn of Amercan history. Second, in he rast twenty years, historians have Preset uch greater emphasis onthe interaction of European es ‘African, and Native American Placed much aay the cultre of the United States Finally studying Now Caer ‘West African,

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