Ancient seafood platter - Wild New World - BBC history

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There were 3 points of entry, the west coast being only one of them. Seafood played a large, not complete, part of the diet of east coast natives, as well as west coast natives.

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This clip shows, that the first Paleo Indians came along the coast at the end of the last glacial periode. The first American Natives lived from seafood. It was impossible to cross Canada, cause it was covered by an ice age glacier. As the global temperature rised, an icefree canyon to the south appeared. Around 9000 years ago this canyon to the south was walkable - the majority of the American Native ancestors peopled whole America. But the first groups came along the westcoast.

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