Beringia

Beringia ia an area also known as the Bering Land Bridge, that connected Alaska and Siberia during the Ice Age. During the Pleistocene era, the Arctic and Antarctic polar ice caps concentrated sea water as ice, causing a general drop in sea level. This revealed the sea floor in parts of the earth, forming "land bridges' such as Beringia. The area reflooded at the end of the Ice Age. The area is significant because it is believed to have enabled human and animal migration from Asia to the Americas about 25,000 years ago. Recent research suggests that Beringia was actually settled for a period of time, rather than just used as a migratory path.

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Who are the Lenni Lenape people? When and where did they migrate from?(1 Answer)

A: They're Native American people. They came here from Asia about 18,000 years ago. They walked across a land bridge called the Beringia. It is now water ...

What groups migrated over the Siberian / Alaskan land bridge into North America?(1 Answer)

A: The Clovis people ----quote---- The Clovis culture (sometimes referred to as the Llano culture1) is a prehistoric Paleoindian culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North ...

What evidence exists that a Siberia to Alaska land bridge existed?(2 Answers)

A: Land Bridge: the Bering Strait Theory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1n47P2d1Fg&feature=player_embedded In the Bering Strait Theory or Beringia theory, the bridge appeared as the ...