Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Discovering the First Californians (pp. 32-36)
I. The First People Arrive
B. The hunters followed the animals across the land bridge from Asia.
C. Slowly these hunters made their way southward across North America.
II. Scientists Find Clues to Early Life
B. Archaeologist Stuart Streuver discovered the earliest permanent homes in North America.
III. People Live in Tribes
B. As villages grew, people moved away and started new villages where they could find more food.
C. By 1492, more than 100 tribes lived all over California.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. About 12,000 years ago, early hunters arrived in what is now California.
A. Scientists, called archaeologists, search for objects and other clues that tell them about the past.
A. The first people in California lived in villages along the coast or by rivers and streams.
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