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- As John Hoffecker, Dennis O'Rourke and I argue in an article for Science, the answer seems to be that they lived on the Bering Land Bridge, the region between Siberia and Alaska that was dry land when sea levels were lower, as much of the world’s freshwater was locked up in ice, but which now lies underneath the waters of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-americans-lived-on-bering-land-bridge-for-thousands-of-years/First Americans Lived on Bering Land Bridge for Thousands of ...
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The Ancient Beringian (AB) is a human archaeogenetic lineage, based on the genome of an infant found at the Upward Sun River site (dubbed USR1), dated to 11,500 years ago. [1] The AB lineage diverged from the Ancestral Native American (ANA) lineage about 20,000 years ago.
Oct 9, 2023 · Genetic studies suggest that the first people to arrive in the Americas descend from an ancestral group of Ancient North Siberians and East Asians that mingled around 20,000 to 23,000 years...
Feb 27, 2014 · • 5 min read. Sediment cores from Alaska and the Bering Sea support genetic evidence that the first human settlers of the New World spent thousands of years inhabiting Beringia, the region that...
Feb 15, 2019 · During the last ice age, people journeyed across the ancient land bridge connecting Asia to North America. That land is now submerged underwater, but a newly created digital map reveals how...
Jan 3, 2018 · Some 15,000 to 25,000 years ago, people wandered from Asia to North America across a now-submerged land called Beringia, which once connected Siberia and Alaska. But exactly when these ancient settlers crossed and how many migrations occurred are hotly debated.
Jul 14, 2023 · The theory with near-unanimous support from both archeologists and geneticists is that the first humans to populate the Americas arrived on foot via a temporary land bridge—across a region known as...
Jan 5, 2018 · However, shortly thereafter, the ancient Beringian population split from the wider group and remained in present-day Alaska while other groups migrated southward into the areas now known as southern Canada and the United States.
