Examples of Beringia in the following topics:
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- Civilization in America began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across Beringia.
- The traditional theory has
been that these early migrants moved into the Beringia land bridge between
eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska around 11,000 to 25,000 years ago.
- It is believed that a small Paleo-Indian population of a few thousand survived the Last Glacial Maximum in Beringia.
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- Many separate indigenous cultures
developed and prospered in North America after the first waves of nomadic
Paleo-Indians migrated to the continent across Beringia near the end of the
Last Glacial Maximum.
- Civilization in America
began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across
Beringia.
- Beringia was an Ice Age land bridge that united the Eastern and
Western hemispheres between Siberia and Alaska.
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- Asian nomads are thought to have entered the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), now the Bering Strait, and possibly via watercraft along the Northwest coast.
- Though migrants from northeastern Asia could have walked to Alaska with relative ease when Beringia was above sea level, traveling south from Alaska to the rest of North America may have posed significant challenges.
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- However, the traditional theory has been that
these early migrants moved into the Beringia land bridge between eastern
Siberia and present-day Alaska around 40,000–17,000 years ago, when sea
levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation.
- Sites in Alaska (East Beringia) are where some of the
earliest evidence has been found of Paleo-Indians, followed by archaeological
sites in northern British Columbia, western Alberta, and the Old Crow Flats
region in the Yukon.
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- According to a prevailing New World migration model, migrations of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge, which connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait.
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- Nomads from Asia are thought to have entered the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), now the Bering Strait, and possibly along the Northwest coast, in waves.