What were the bases of Civilization in America? (Revised 10/9/01)
Migration of the European and Asian Homo sapiens across the tundra land bridge, presently the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia, is said to be due from “increasing population pressures”(p. 198), and the pursuit of mammoths, mastodons and other large game. Civilization in America was separate from the classical world of Asia, North Africa and southern Europe, and progressed on it’s own, without the help of any previous civilization.
The ancient hunters–the first evident humans around 9500 B.C.E.–basis of social organiza