Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 290 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0231503881
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0231130600
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9780231503884
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9780231130608
Content:
Twenty-five thousand years ago, sea level fell more than 400 feet below its present position as a consequence of the growth of immense ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. A dry plain stretching 1,000 miles from the Arctic Ocean to the Aleutians became exposed between northeast Asia and Alaska, and across that plain, most likely, walked the first people of the New World. This book describes what is known about these people and the now partly submerged land, named Beringia, which they settled during the final millennia of the Ice Age. Humans first occupied Beringia during a twil
Content:
Preface: Lost continent -- An introduction to Beringia -- Beringian landscapes -- Settlement of Northern Asia -- The beginning of the lateglacial -- The end of the lateglacial interstadial -- The younger dryas and the end of Beringia -- Beringia and the new world
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-277) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231130608
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231130600
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hoffecker, John F Human ecology of Beringia New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007
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English
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