By Land or By Sea? Revisiting the Bering Straits

Traditionally, most anthropologists have accepted the theory that the ancestors of all native American cultures in the New World migrated by foot from Asia during the Pleistocene Era when the sea level was lower and a narrow strip of land called the Bering Land Bridge connected the two continents. B...

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Main Author: Christenson, Allen J.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2023
Subjects:
Bering land bridge
Bering Straits
native American origins
E. James Dixon
Mormon Studies
Religion
Religious Education
Bering Land Bridge
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol16/iss1/3
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/insights/article/1698/viewcontent/03_By_Land_or_Sea.pdf
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Summary:Traditionally, most anthropologists have accepted the theory that the ancestors of all native American cultures in the New World migrated by foot from Asia during the Pleistocene Era when the sea level was lower and a narrow strip of land called the Bering Land Bridge connected the two continents. But as a review in the latest issue of BYU Studies shows, Dr. E. James Dixon, in Quest for the Origins of the First Americans, challenges this traditional model.

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