Routes to Bering Strait

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Chard, Chester S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1960
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Arctic; Bering Strait; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/276212; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600027621

Abstract Maximum glaciation in eastern Siberia, the final glaciation, the mountainous area, and the land area exposed by moderate lowerings of sea level are plotted on a map to illustrate that two routes from northeast Asia to northwest North America were available for human movements. The southern route along the coastal shelf may have played a more significant role in the initial settlement of the New World than did the northern route along the Arctic shore.