Two Routes to the Americas | The Great Human Race

after being trapped on the Bering Land
Bridge for several thousand years our
ancestors headed south in search of
warmer climates and better food sources
once people made it across the land
bridge it was like the floodgates opened
up
Kent and I are splitting up to represent
two of the major migration routes into
North America as the Ice Age came to an
end the coastal glaciers melted allowing
humans to migrate south by boat later an
interior corridor opened up in the ice
providing a land route into the Americas
I’m taking an interior route through the
thick lush temperate rainforests
beautiful and harsh the coastal route is
a much faster route than the inland
route but it’s a lot more treacherous
this is the one I’ve been takin the
Pacific Northwest was one of the first
areas to be populated in America when
humans arrived here they found a
bountiful resource that would one day
create empires salmon because of this
abundant salmon resource here in the
Pacific Northwest and the way that
people dealt with it prehistoric Lee
complex societies developed everything
from almost kings down to slaves now
bill and cat will each take one of these
migratory paths and meet at a river
mouth to capitalize on the salmon run
before the season ends