Archaeology and genetics show that the many Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere share something else too. The many threads of their histories converge at a point in the far distant past when the ancestors of the first peoples in the Americas moved from Beringia into new lands in North America. Over just a few thousand years, they explored and adapted to environments across more than 16 million square miles of rocky coasts, deep old-growth forests, high plateaus, endless grasslands, lakeshores, and high arctic tundra. They built mobile camps, small settlements, farming communities, and
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