While Indigenous peoples have their own sacred stories to explain their origins in the Americas, this map provides a snapshot of archaeologists', geologists', and geneticists' explanations of the origins and migration of humans from from Asia to the Americas. There is also an animated version of the map to show movement over time and space. However, as is emphasized in the article accompanying this migration map, the speed at which human groups moved varied, depending on climate, the population pressures, and technologies, as well as less tangible factors like creativity and adaptability.

THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE (1450-1770)

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