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Routes to Bering Strait

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Chester S. Chard*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wise.

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.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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