The Beringia Land Bridge

E   Evidence suggests people and animals entered North America over a land bridge on the Asian side of the Bering Sea. 

C   Crossing the land bridge occurred over 40,000 years ago, before the last ice age.T

       Movement over the land bridge was a fast process.

     Archeologists are only able to get information from sites on land.

    The loss of the Franklin Expedition and the advent of fishing in Alaska altered the exploration efforts in Northwest Alaska.

     Results of whaling on the culture and economy of northwest Alaska were the spread of the use of firearms, new diseases, and the use of tobacco.

     Alaska became important in WWII because of its closeness to the USSR.

       Big game hunting culture originated in Asia.

      The first group of people to cross the Beringia Land Bridge were the hunters.

      The  Paleo-Eskimos who cross the Beringia Land Bridge were decedents of the arctic hunters from northeastern Siberia and China.