The ancestors of Native Americans came to the New World by walking over a land bridge across the Bering Strait. But there’s a rather glaring 10,000 year gap in the story — one that could be ...

The term “land bridge” is misleading because it sounds as if there was a slim finger of land connecting two vast continents. Beringia was an enormous tract of land, some 1000 miles across at ...

During the last ice age, people journeyed across the ancient land bridge connecting Asia to North America. That land is now submerged underwater, but a newly created digital map reveals how the ...

You might have missed it, but the ancient land of Beringia has gotten some extra protection from superpowers Russia and the United States. That's right, Beringia -- 2,800 miles stretching from ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by Inside Science.The original is here. (ISNS) -- The first settlers of the New World may have spent 10,000 years on Beringia, a vast land bridge that once ...

For decades, reconstructions of the earliest human migrations to the Americas had hunter-gatherers crossing from Siberia to what's now Alaska via the land bridge known as Beringia. The event must have ...

COMMENTARY Beringia's crossing, ... But I might also propose calling it Beringia Day, for the now submerged land bridge that once connected the Old and New Worlds (more on that below).

THE LAST GIANT OF BERINGIA: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge Dan O'Neill, . . Westview, $26 (231pp) ISBN 978-0-8133-4197-2 ...

Native Americans and Siberians on Beringia land bridge may have shared common language 10,000 years ago. By James Maynard Mar 17 2014, 00:18 AM EDT .

New genetic evidence supports the hypothesis that the first people in the Americas all came from northeast Asia by crossing a land bridge known as Beringia. When sea levels rose after the last ice ...

New research suggests a better time frame for when the Bering Land Bridge formed and flooded, and when humans migrated across it. ... 200 years later, in the 1920s, scientists began trying to study ...