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Actually the earliest people in the Americas did have horses available, but they used them as a source of food not as "beasts of burden", this hunting drove the American horses into extinction.Without "beasts of burden" the people of the Americas used either dogs or had to carry loads themselves. In South America the llamas (relatives of camels) were domesticated as "beasts of burden".
Actually the earliest people in the Americas did have horses available, but they used them as a source of food not as "beasts of burden", this hunting drove the American horses into extinction.Without "beasts of burden" the people of the Americas used either dogs or had to carry loads themselves. In South America the llamas (relatives of camels) were domesticated as "beasts of burden".
Cucurbita pepo are one of the earliest if not the earliest species of domesticated squash by the Indians.Source: Smith, B. D. (1997). The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10,000 Years Ago. Science , 276 (5314), 932-934. [Website] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/276/5314/932.
The continents of North, Central, and South America were discovered some 40,000 years ago by their earliest settlers, who became what are now known as the aboriginal people of the Western Hemisphere. Then about 500 years ago the hemisphere was invaded by Europeans and conquered.
Answer: Writing existed thousands of years before the United States came into existence. The earliest writings can be dated back to around 3500 B.C.in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) and it was called Cuneiform. If the question is specific about the Americas in particular, the earliest forms of writing were pictographic and were used by the Meso-american Indians such as the Olmecs, the Mayans and later on the Aztecs. Hope this helps