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Who Crossed the Bering Land Bridge?

One of the important aspects of Beringia is that it allowed humans to migrate across the Bering Sea from Asia, specifically Siberia, into North America.

The prevailing theory is that these nomads were following migrating animals across the land bridge.

They may have begun their migration as early as 20,000 years ago, possibly even 30,000 years ago. An unusual 30,000-year-old site found above the arctic circle is the Yana RHS site. It is located west of the Bering Land Bridge but east of the Verkhoyansk Range in Siberia.

The earliest sites on the east side of the Bering Land Bridge in the Americas are 16,000 years old at the extreme end.

As stated above, the way into North America was blocked by ice, so people settled on the land bridge for many years.

As the ice sheets began to recede and the Bering Land Bridge began to flood at the end of the ice age, however, humans and the animals they were following moved across the land bridge and into North America.

Animal and Human Migrations Across the Bering Land Bridge
Animals likely began migrating across the land bridge before people.

Unlike much of North America at the time, Beringia remained ice-free because the climate was too dry for ice sheets or glaciers to form. Pollen studies show this climate turned the land bridge into a vast plain of grasses, herbs, and flowers perfect for grazing herds.

Fossils found in the area indicate woolly mammoths, steppe bison, and Yukon horses lived on and migrated across the land bridge.

Predators such as saber-toothed tigers, lions, scimitar cats, and bears were also in the area. Eventually, between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago, humans began following the migrating animals into North America.

Fossils of mammals that lived during the Ice Age.

Posted September 29 2023 at 7:16 PM

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