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| land bridge between Siberia and Alaska |
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| Siberian hunters that crossed Beringia and populated the Western Hemisphere for the next few millennia |
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| A distinctively shaped spearhead named for the place in New Mexico where it was first excavated |
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| The many different hunting and gathering cultures that descended from Paleo-Indians |
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| developed trapping techniques that made it easy to kill large numbers of animals |
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| Chumash, Northwest peoples |
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| they built more or less permanent villages that lay along a rich natural environment on the Pacific Northwest coast |
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| Woodland Hunters east of the Mississippi river adapted to a forest environment that hunted deer |
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| Mogollon, Hohokam, Anasazi cultures |
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| agricultural settlements and multiunit dwellings were utilized by these groups in response to drought |
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| Mound-builders: Adena people, Hopewell culture, Cahokia |
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| Woodland cultures throughout the vast watershed drained by the Mississippi river built burial mounds. |
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| Eastern Woodland Cultures: Algonquian, Iroquoian, Muskogean |
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| Native North Americans that inhabited the Woodland region east of the Mississippi River. |
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| empire stretched from coast to coast across central Mexico |
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