Virginia’s First People
February 17th, 2012
There’s an interesting article in this month’s Coop Living magazine about Native Americans in Virginia:
One theory, based on archaeological findings, is that Indians came from Asia and walked across a frozen Bering Strait land bridge from Russia to Alaska, then trudged on across America, settling in various places, including Virginia, according to two archaeologists.
“We know Indians were in Virginia about 18,000 years ago, possibly even earlier,” says Dr. Elizabeth A. Moore, curator of archaeology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville. “These early tribes were wandering bands of hunters and gatherers. They had no pack animals so they walked everywhere they went.”
