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Beringia

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Be·rin·gi·a  (b-rnj-)
A region extending from western Siberia into North America that includes the Bering land bridge.


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org/ Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre Whitehorse, Yukon Come learn about the First Nations people who migrated to the Yukon by crossing the Beringia bridge when the Bering Sea was low, revealing the land below and connecting Alaska and Siberia.
During a polar research expedition to the Beringia region in 2005, we collected fecal samples from birds at sites with no or low human population.
Our study presents a novel scenario of two almost concomitant paths of migration, both from Beringia about 15,000 to 17,000 years ago, that led to the dispersal of the first Americans," Torroni says.
 
 
 
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