Compare the similarities and differences between the indigenous traditions of asia and the americas,
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Thousands of years ago, a frozen bridge joined Asia with North America. Research scientists surmise that sometime during the Ice Age—35,000 to 10,000 years ago—glaciers allowed the first people to traverse a 50-mile wide gap between Siberia and Alaska (that is now underwater and referred to as Beringia). It is most likely that these people were hunting the great mammoth, a huge elephant with long tusks, a shaggy fur collar and tons of fat, skin and protein.
Because these tribes made their way to very different areas in terms of climate, geological elements and food or other resources, they became experts in the appropriate subjects: farming, fishing, cliff dwelling and so on. Here is a list of the disparate 10 areas that anthropologists use to divide the people into North American tribes and cultures:
Northwest: seafaring/woodworkers from Alaska to Northern California
High Plateau: British Columbia and the Northwest, snow-capped mountain dwellers with alpine forests and sunlit valleys
Great Basin: Nevada and Utah hardy survivors from mountaintops to the desert below
California: Hunter-gatherers-traders, the West Coasters along the Pacific Ocean to Baja Mexico
Arctic and Subarctic: Inuits from Siberia to Greenland
Pacific Northwest: Totem tribes in forests and fjords—a narrow stretch of land between the ocean and coastal mountains
Great Plains: Buffalo hunters west of the Mississippi to Rockies, from Canada to Mexico
Southwest: Desert dwellers of Arizona, New Mexico and Northern Mexico
Northeast: Woodland hunters of New England, Mid-Atlantic and the Great Lakes region
Southeast: Village farmers of Florida and the Deep South