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roaming
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ove 10000 Yaa | much like the kayaks used by modern-day ‘nu
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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,