Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere

• Main Authors: Hoffecker, John F, Elias, Scott A, Scott, G Richard, O'Rourke, Dennis H, Hlusko, Leslea J, Potapova, Olga, Pitulko, Vladimir, Pavlova, Elena, Bourgeon, Lauriane, Vachula, Richard S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2023
• Subjects: Animals; Humans; North America; Americas; Arctic Regions; Mammals; Beringia; Quaternary; palaeogenomics; archaeology; migration; Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Arctic; Pacific; The Corridor; Bering Land Bridge; Chukchi; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ct9p4tv

Did Beringian environments represent an ecological barrier to humans until less than 15 000 years ago or was access to the Americas controlled by the spatial-temporal distribution of North American ice sheets? Beringian environments varied with respect to climate and biota, especially in the two maj...