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  North America timeline
     
c. 30,000 years ago
 
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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
 
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The La Brea tarpit in Los Angeles shows signs of human activity in the region     
c. 1000 BC
 
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Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes       
c. 981
 
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Eric Thorvaldsson, or Eric the Red, sails to Greenland when he is exiled from Iceland      
c. 1000
 
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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
 
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Thorfinn Karlsefni leads an expedition to north America, traces of which may survive in a longhouse at L'Anse aux Meadows