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	Welcome to the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre - What is Beringia?
		Beringia, clothed in the hardy grasses and herbs of the mammoth steppe, was home to the giants of the Ice Age: the mammoth, the giant short-faced bear, the steppe bison, and the scimitar cat.
		At the height of the last great Ice Age, the most successful hunters of all, human beings, entered Beringia from the Siberian steppes, conquering the last frontier for the human species.
		Beringia vanished with the end of the last Ice Age.
	www.beringia.com /what.html (275 words)

	beringia
		Beringia is the area of Siberia and Alaska previously connected by the exposed floors of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
		Beringia covered an area roughly twice the size of Texas and was over 1800 kilometers wide from north to south.
		This separation by the Beringia land area obstructed warm air masses and water from the Pacific and was instrumental in producing a cold, dry continental climate.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/grg/huebner/grg309/beringia.html (2011 words)

	Jordan: Beringia Chronology
		Most early human populations of the Americas are descended from the peoples who lived in Beringia and, over the course of generations, "crossed" Beringia, so that when the waters eventually rose again, their descendants were dwelling on the American side.
		During some periods when Beringia itself was available, however, a wide unglaciated "corridor" extended southwestward on the east side of the Canadian Rockies, even though the area along the coast of Alaska and Canada was covered with ice.
		During the "warm" periods of melted glaciers and high sea water, when Beringia itself was submerged, naturally both the coastal and inland routes were ice-free.
	weber.ucsd.edu /~dkjordan/arch/beringia.html (1144 words)

	US and Russan Environmentalist Joint Forces
		Russia is forcing the inhabitants of Beringia to reach for some means of regulating change before irreparable damage is done to the environment.
		Because Beringia's resources and problems transcend national boundaries, scientists, government officials, and environmentalists from the United States and Russia are coming together with the native people to find an international solution.
		The goal of the dialogue is to create Beringia's land and wildlife and at the same time accommodate the cultural life of its native people, and give them income.
	www.american.edu /TED/bering.htm (4169 words)

	Beringia South: Home
		Beringia South is a nonprofit research and educational organization established in 1998 by Derek J. Craighead.
		Beringia South's office is in Kelly, Wyoming, situated on the north bank of the Gros Ventre river, ten miles from its confluence with the Snake River.
		The mission of Beringia South is to contribute new knowledge toward improving the management and preservation of our natural environment by pursuing innovative, long-term research on key ecosystem components upon which all life depends.
	www.beringiasouth.org (277 words)

	Bering land bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beringia was not glaciated because snowfall was extremely light due to the southwesterly winds from the Pacific Ocean having lost their moisture over the fully glaciated Alaska Range.
		The bridging land mass called "Beringia" is believed to have existed both in the glaciation that occurred before 35,000 BC and during the more recent period 22,000-7,000 years ago.
		Beringia constantly transformed its ecology as the changing climate affected the environment, determining which plants and animals were able to survive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bering_land_bridge (726 words)

	Canada's First Nations: Migration Theories
		The Beringia land bridge is widely accepted as the most probable migratory route of humans into the Americas.
		It is estimated that Beringia was capable of supporting fifteen to twenty-five people per 386 square miles, which is the equivalent to modern day Inuit.
		Deloria disputed the Beringia theory based upon his hypothesis that the ocean's water levels had to drop sixty metres in order to fully expose a land bridge.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/firstnations/theories.html (944 words)

	What is Beringia
		Today, we use the term to describe a vast area between the Kolyma River in the Russian Far East to the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
		As one of the world’s great ancient crossroads, Beringia may hold solutions to puzzles about who the first people were to come to North America, how and when they traveled and how they survived under such harsh climatic conditions.
		Our area of primary focus for research and cultural development is Central Beringia, that area adjoining the Bering Strait between 64 and 70 degrees north latitude and 160 and 180 degrees west longitude.
	www.nps.gov /akso/beringia/whatisberingia2.htm (423 words)

	Pleistocene Archaeology of the Old Crow Flats
		The story of humans in the Old Crow Basin must begin with the story of Beringia, that vast ice-free landmass that stretched from the Mackenzie River in the east to the Koyma River in Siberia in the west (Morlan 1996).
		With the fluctuations in sea level over the last 70 million years, the central part of Beringia has been dry land for millions of years at a time, and for other long periods, including the present, has been flooded by ocean waters.
		The earliest claimed date for the presence of humans in eastern Beringia was based on fossil bone and tusk fragments found by W. Irving and his colleagues at locality 12 on the Old Crow River.
	yukon.taiga.net /vuntutrda/archaeol/pleis.htm (1619 words)

	The Last Giant of Beringia: the Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge Natural History - Find Articles
		For that reason, specialists prefer to call the connection Beringia, reflecting its former character as a shared territory, a cosmopolitan province where the mammoths and steppe grasses of the Old World mingled with those of the New.
		In the past fifty years, investigators have managed to reconstruct the vanished landscape of Beringia--from its varying size and coastline as the eons passed, to the natural history of its plant, animal, and human populations.
		O'Neill's Giant of Beringia, appropriately, is a modest tale, but a satisfying one, an instructive record of an inquiring mind and a life well lived.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_8_113/ai_n6228529 (813 words)

	Unitarian Universalist Biographical Dictionary
		Beringia graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in cultural anthropology.
		After deciding to leave the field of anthropology, Beringia took her late night hobby of computer programming and turned it into a career as a database designer for large scale manufacturing systems.
		Beringia is currently the church secretary for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Kern County in Bakersfield, California.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/authors/beringiazen.html (148 words)

	Marine Climate and Relative Sea Level Across Central Beringia
		During the last glacial maximum sea level was lowered by ~125m.The size of Beringia increased dramatically, and the flow of fresher, nutrient rich Pacific water into the Chukchi Sea was cut off due to the resulting emergence of the Bering Strait.
		Controversies exist as to whether the Bering Land Bridge was dominated by moist or dry tundra as large mammals and man migrated between continents.
		This lack of understanding is partly due to the fact that relative sea level in Beringia is likely to have differed from eustatic sea level as a result of tectonic and possible glacio-eustatic effects.
	www.geo.umass.edu /beringia/index.html (380 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge: Books: Dan O'Neill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is a short but compelling history of a major event in recent geological studies: the final proof in the early 1970s of the onetime existence of the Bering Land Bridge, a long-surmised strip of land that connected North America and Asia in the Ice Age, possibly as early as 14,000 years ago.
		This is an impressive portrait of Hopkins, a scientific "giant" whose legacy is as huge as the woolly mammoths that he showed to have ranged throughout Beringia.
		This land bridge, named Beringia after the arctic explorer Vitus Bering, was the great discovery of New England geologist Dave Hopkins.
	www.amazon.ca /Last-Giant-Beringia-Mystery-Bering/dp/0813341973 (542 words)

	Beringia South: Teton Cougar Project
		In 2003, Teton Cougar Project oversight was transferred to Beringia South, under the direction of Howard and his co-principal investigator for the project, Derek Craighead.
		They quickly recognized this project was the missing piece in the development of their goal of combining databases on the four largest carnivores in the contiguous United States - wolves, cougars, grizzly bears, and fl bears.
		All donations are tax-deductible and Beringia South is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
	www.beringiasouth.org /index.cfm?id=tetonCougarProject (289 words)

	Long Paleoclimate Records From Beringia, the North Pacific, and Adjacent Seas II - Paleoceanography and ...
		Glacial periods across much of Beringia during the early and middle Pleistocene were at least an order of magnitude more extensive than during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) for reasons that remain unclear but must be related to fundamental changes in moisture flux.
		The tripartite nature of stage 5 warm periods, strong in Europe, is muted in Beringia, and records of glacial stages are not generally characterized by rapid, high-amplitude fluctuations.
		The regional response of Beringia to global and hemispheric forcing primarily reflects its location upwind of the Laurentide ice and the dynamics of the northern Pacific and western Arctic oceans (especially those of sea ice).
	www.agu.org /meetings/fm04/fm04-sessions/fm04_PP24A.html (3460 words)

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