I'm guessing that sea mammal hunting was a productive, but still somewhat marginal food source....but the further east and south they went along the coastline the more sea mammals they found....and then they started finding trees....
It was much easier and faster to travel by water than over land in ancient days up until about a hundred years ago. It's one thing to walk with limited provisions, but to haul anything heavier would require land mammals like horses or oxen. Neither existed in the Americas and in Siberia thousands of years ago. But boats could haul more stuff and people. I would guess that hunting trips helped the Siberian people find new territories where they may want to settle. The ice ages would have exposed land that is now underwater, so finding artifacts or campsites of ancient sea voyagers is nearly impossible today.
Finally, it's occured to another, something I realised decades ago! Perhaps a Homo-Sapien point of difference, to other hominids, was no "fear" of water, but irrespective, a sea-borne entry into the Americas was always emminently feasible to me! Island hopping, chasing migrations, "brief", or otherwise, corridor openings, we would do it! The others, maybe not!
@user-ey4ob3oc6u I thought I came up with this idea on my own, a stroke of genius, until I flipped through the children's book "Who Was First? Discovering the Americas" and saw the same suggestions. Of course I re-edited the video right away, haha
The Chinook have oral legends of having a trading system that spawned from Alaska to California. Crossing over the ice sheet with a Nootka Canoe could be done in the Pleistocene. :)
I'm guessing that sea mammal hunting was a productive, but still somewhat marginal food source....but the further east and south they went along the coastline the more sea mammals they found....and then they started finding trees....
The ice free corridor would have beev a thousand mile frozen swamp. Not readilt traversed by people on foot!
@herbertfawcett7213 Maybe they had really thick boots :)
That and a wasteland of hardly any vegetation for years
It was much easier and faster to travel by water than over land in ancient days up until about a hundred years ago. It's one thing to walk with limited provisions, but to haul anything heavier would require land mammals like horses or oxen. Neither existed in the Americas and in Siberia thousands of years ago. But boats could haul more stuff and people. I would guess that hunting trips helped the Siberian people find new territories where they may want to settle. The ice ages would have exposed land that is now underwater, so finding artifacts or campsites of ancient sea voyagers is nearly impossible today.
Finally, it's occured to another, something I realised decades ago! Perhaps a Homo-Sapien point of difference, to other hominids, was no "fear" of water, but irrespective, a sea-borne entry into the Americas was always emminently feasible to me! Island hopping, chasing migrations, "brief", or otherwise, corridor openings, we would do it! The others, maybe not!
@user-ey4ob3oc6u I thought I came up with this idea on my own, a stroke of genius, until I flipped through the children's book "Who Was First? Discovering the Americas" and saw the same suggestions. Of course I re-edited the video right away, haha
Polar bears are an easy catch while hibernating. With dogs easier.
@michaelcarley9866 That sounds really dangerous!
The Chinook have oral legends of having a trading system that spawned from Alaska to California.
Crossing over the ice sheet with a Nootka Canoe could be done in the Pleistocene. :)
@kwitshadie6539 The Pleistocene epoch ended about 11,700 years ago, so that fits what this video is suggesting. Thanks for the comment
You’re most welcome :)
First Americans?