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c. 30,000 years ago
With the sea level falling, a land bridge (known as Beringia) forms between Siberia and Alaska, enabling humans to enter the continent of America
Mount Susitna, in the west of Alaska
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c. 15,000 years ago
The La Brea tarpit in Los Angeles shows signs of human activity in the region
c. 1000 BC
Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes
c. 981
Eric Thorvaldsson, or Eric the Red, sails to Greenland when he is exiled from Iceland
c. 1000
Leif Ericsson claims to have made landfall at three places in north America, one of which he names Vinland - the land of wine
c. 1010
Thorfinn Karlsefni leads an expedition to north America, traces of which may survive in a longhouse at L'Anse aux Meadows
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