The Bering Land Bridge and Beringia: definitions and geography
The relatively shallow Bering Sea continental shelf lies between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans separating the coasts of Alaska and Siberia (Figure 1); it was exposed during periods of extensive continental glaciation, as moisture was locked up in the glaciers and sea level dropped about 100 m below modern levels. The exposure of this shelf established what is referred to as the Bering Land Bridge, a nearly 1,000 km wide land-based connection between northeastern Asia and northwestern North America. This area, when exposed, forms the once ∼34 million acre continental mass known as Beringia (Hopkins, 1959; Hultén, 1968; Barber, 2005). During the major episodes of glaciation of the Pleistocene, the extensive northern North American Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets coalesced in the region of Alberta, Canada, creating barriers for biotic migration to the east and south. During this period, Alaska and portions of far...
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Reuther, J.D., Potter, B.A. (2017). Beringia, Geoarchaeology. In: Gilbert, A.S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4409-0_192
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