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Book The Bering Land Bridge

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Moody Hopkins
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 9780804702720
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book The Bering Land Bridge written by David Moody Hopkins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data of geology, oceanography, paleontology, plant geography, and anthropology focus on problems and lessons of Beringia. Includes papers presented at Symposium held at VII Congress of International Association for Quaternary Research, Boulder, Colorado, 1965.

Book The Last Giant of Beringia

Download or read book The Last Giant of Beringia written by Dan O'Neill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since Jose de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea of a connection between the continents in 1589. But proof of the land bridge - now named Beringia after eighteenth-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering - eluded scientists until an inquiring geologist named Dave Hopkins emerged from rural New England and set himself to the task of solving the mystery. Through the life story of Hopkins, The Last Giant of Beringia reveals the fascinating science detective story that at last confirmed the existence of the land bridge that served as the intercontinental migration route for such massive Ice Age beasts as woolly mammoths, steppe bison, giant stag-moose, dire wolves, short-faced bears, and saber-toothed cats - and for the first humans to enter the New World from Asia. After proving unambiguously that the land bridge existed, Hopkins went on to show that the Beringian landscape cannot have been the "polar desert" that many had claimed, but provided forage enough to sustain a diverse menagerie of Ice Age behemoths.

Book Bering Bridge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Schurke
  • Publisher : University of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Bering Bridge written by Paul Schurke and published by University of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High adventure in this account of a group of Russians and Americans (some of whom were Eskimos) and their Arctic expedition from Siberia to Alaska.

Book The Bering Land Bridge

Download or read book The Bering Land Bridge written by David Moody Hopkins and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  It is a Hard Country  Though

Download or read book It is a Hard Country Though written by George F. Williss and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Origin

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  • Author : Jennifer Raff
  • Publisher : Twelve
  • Release : 2022-02-08
  • ISBN : 153874970X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Origin written by Jennifer Raff and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution. 20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep fascination and controversy. No written records—and scant archaeological evidence—exist to tell us what happened or how it took place. Many different models have been proposed to explain how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the thousands of years that followed. A study of both past and present, ORIGIN explores how genetics is currently being used to construct narratives that profoundly impact Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It serves as a primer for anyone interested in how genetics has become entangled with identity in the way that society addresses the question "Who is indigenous?"

Book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve  Alaska

Download or read book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve Alaska written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Across Atlantic Ice

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  • Author : Dennis J. Stanford
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0520275780
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Across Atlantic Ice written by Dennis J. Stanford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.

Book The Bridge Over the Bering Strait

Download or read book The Bridge Over the Bering Strait written by James Cotter and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the reader is a Sci-Fi lover or a fiction devotee, The Bridge Over the Bering Strait by James Cotter is as imaginative as it is electrifying. Set in 2032, Cotter introduces an international team of engineers assembled to do what has never been achieved: tunnel under the Bering Sea and create a bridge between Siberia and Alaska, thereby linking Asia and the Americas for travel and trade. The key players driving this project-Ford and Darwi Walker, and their son Arivata, along with Sam Takahashi and Zoia Roskova-soon discover that they are part of something reaching far beyond structural engineering: this project threatens their personal lives, their reputations, and much more. Weaving together tribal customs and lore, political intimidation between the White House and the Kremlin, and then a disaster that ultimately leads to war, Cotter creates a story that pulls readers into its vortex and keeps us on edge to the final page.

Book Bridge to Russia

Download or read book Bridge to Russia written by Murray Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the days of Peter the Great, who sent Bering on the hazardous voyage of exploration that culminated in the discovery of the Aleutians, these treeless, volcanic islands have played an important role in world history. The author describes the strange geological formations, the history, heroism of the engineers who carved the air fields, and the Aleution participation in World War II. Morgan has made the Aleutions a completely absorbing subject through skillful research and a style that makes every page absorbing reading.

Book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve  Wilderness Recommendation

Download or read book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve Wilderness Recommendation written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aleuts  Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge

Download or read book Aleuts Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge written by William S. Laughlin and published by Wadsworth Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates ethnological, demographic, biological, archaeological and ecological information about the Alaskan Aleut people.

Book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve  Alaska

Download or read book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve Alaska written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve  Alaska

Download or read book Bering Land Bridge National Preserve Alaska written by United States. National Park Service. Alaska Regional Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents alternatives for management and use of resources of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska.

Book Paleoecology of Beringia

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  • Author : David M. Hopkins
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2013-09-17
  • ISBN : 1483273407
  • Pages : 503 pages

Download or read book Paleoecology of Beringia written by David M. Hopkins and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleoecology of Beringia is the product of a symposium organized by its editors, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and held at the foundation's conference center in Burg Wartenstein, Austria, 8-17 June 1979. The focus of this volume is on the paradox central to all studies of the unglaciated Arctic during the last Ice Age: that vertebrate fossils indicate that from 45,000 to 11,000 years BP an environment considerably more diverse and productive than the present one existed, whereas the botanical record, where it is not silent, supports a far more conservative appraisal of the region's ability to sustain any but the sparsest forms of plant and animal life. The volume is organized into seven parts. Part 1 focuses on the paleogeography of the Beringia. The studies in Part 2 explore the ancient vegatation. Part 3 deals with the steppe-tundra concept and its application in Beringia. Part 4 examines the paleoclimate while Part 5 is devoted to the biology of surviving relatives of the Pleistocene ungulates. Part 6 takes up the presence of man in ancient Beringia. Part 7 assesses the paleoecology of Beringia during the last 40,000 years

Book Floating Coast  An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Download or read book Floating Coast An Environmental History of the Bering Strait written by Bathsheba Demuth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between capitalism, communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the industrial age. Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought, and will continue to bring, to a finite planet.