Beringia
English
Etymology
From Bering + -ia, coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937.
Proper noun
Beringia
- The Bering land bridge, a geographical phenomenon roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide (north to south) at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages; the land bridge previously occupying what is now the Bering Strait.
- 2006, Michael R. Bever, "Too Little, Too Late? The Radiocarbon Chronology of Alaska and the Peopling of the New World", American Antiquity:
- Note that, while not in Alaska, one site from the adjacent Yukon Territory has been included as well; it, too, would have been within easter Beringia during the last glaciation.
- 2006, Michael R. Bever, "Too Little, Too Late? The Radiocarbon Chronology of Alaska and the Peopling of the New World", American Antiquity:
- All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada
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