The Mesolithic Area

The Mesolithic Era/ La era mesolítica

How did early humans migrate to Europe and Asia without ships?

• This was during the Ice Age, so much of Earth was frozen.

• Many areas that had been underwater became dry land where people could walk

• Beringia was a land mass that linked present day Alaska to northeast Asia

• So, Beringia was a land bridge

Multiple Choice

What do you think happened to the Beringia land bridge? Do you think it is still there now?

• Sea levels have risen and continents (land masses) have shifted, so it is gone

• It is still there currently

Why did people shift from hunting and gathering, to farming?/ ¿Por qué la gente pasó de la caza y la recolección a la agricultura?

• As the glaciers (ice sheets) retreated, the huge animals of the ice age died out/ A medida que los glaciares (capas de hielo) se retiraron, los enormes animales de la edad de hielo se extinguieron.

• It is not clear if the huge animals were over-hunted, or died out because of climate change, or both/ No está claro si los enormes animales fueron cazados en exceso o se extinguieron debido al cambio climático, o ambos.

• A whole family used to be able to hunt a wooly mammoth or wooly rhino and live off it's meat for an entire season/ Toda una familia solía poder cazar un mamut lanudo o un rinoceronte lanudo y vivir de su carne durante toda una temporada.

• A warmer climate meant the number of plants and small animals increased!/ ¡Un clima más cálido significó un aumento en el número de plantas y animales pequeños!

Multiple Choice

What did people eat after the glaciers retreated?/ ¿Qué comió la gente después de que los glaciares se retiraron?

• They began to eat wild grains, small animals, and eventually they began to grow their own food crops and raise their own animals for food/ Comenzaron a comer granos silvestres, animales pequeños y, finalmente, comenzaron a cultivar sus propios cultivos alimentarios y a criar sus propios animales para alimentarse.

• woolly rhinos, woolly mammoths and other Ice Age huge animals/ rinocerontes lanudos, mamuts lanudos y otros animales enormes de la Edad del Hielo