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"Eric�" <wntrbkr@canuckistan.ca> wrote in message
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> zolota wrote...
>
> > > The Bering 'land bridge' is no longer generally held to have ever
> > > existed, at least when humans were present to use it.
>
> > According to who? References please. My understanding is that it closed
only
> > a few thousand years ago, cira 10,000 BPT.
>
> My bad. Talking off the top of my head. I was referring to the Land
> Bridge theory which suggested that the Americas became populated via the
> land bridge 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.  Which is now discounted due to
> 12000 year old archaelogical digs in Southern Chile, among others.
> There is evidence that there was a land-bridge or bridges.
>
> Some people may have come across a land bridge at that time, but it
> looks like plenty were already here, having arrived either on previous
> land-bridges, ice-bridges or by other means.  AFAIK there is no proof
> that a single person crossed from Asia on a land-bridge at the time of
> the last ice-age.
>
> There are tons of documents on-line related to the controversy.
> http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/ricci-h.html

The Bluefish caves of Alaska contain human artefacts that have been dated to
18,000 years ago. At that time the glaciers existed over much of the world,
and sea levels were much lower than now. Even if a landbridge didn't exist,
it would have been much easier to cross the Bering Strait than it would be
now.