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Was Beringia a Homeland Rather Than a Bridge? - Rethinking the Peopling of the Americas | Sleepy Facts About History
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The familiar textbook image of the peopling of the Americas is tidy, memorable, and wrong. For most of the twentieth century, the consensus held that a band of hunters crossed a narrow land bridge from Siberia into Alaska about thirteen thousand years ago, pushing south through a gap in the ice sheets as the Clovis people. But decades of interdisciplinary research have dismantled this picture, replacing it with a more complex and uncertain understanding of how human beings came to inhabit…
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