Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• 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: The Royal Society 2023
• Subjects: Migration; Archaeology; Palaeogenomics; Beringia; Quaternary; Arctic; Pacific; The Corridor; Bering Land Bridge; Chukchi; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34038; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2246

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...