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AnAncient Culture

Words to Understand domesticate to tame or control wild animals or plants foodways the social, cultural, and economic aspects of food and dining foraging finding food in the wild indigenous original or native to a particular place or area sustenance food that keeps people alive yields in agriculture, the food that is successfully harvested During this time, the Earth’s temperatureswere cooler, andmuch of the Earth’s water was locked up in ice, lowering sea levels by hundreds of feet. A land bridge— called Beringia—formed in the far north, between what are now Russia, Canada, and the US state of Alaska. T he traffic on the bridge wasn’t heavy, but it was steady. A few people one day, maybe a few dozen a month after that—no one knows for sure, because it hap- pened between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene Epoch, commonly called the Ice Age.

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