• DOI:10.1126/science.1250768
Corpus ID: 19479091

Out of Beringia?

@article{Hoffecker2014OutOB,
  title={Out of Beringia?},
  author={J. Hoffecker and S. Elias and D. H. O'Rourke},
  journal={Science},
  year={2014},
  volume={343},
  pages={979 - 980}
}

J. Hoffecker, S. Elias, D. H. O'Rourke

Published 2014

Geography, Medicine

Science

A shrub tundra refugium on the Bering land bridge may have played a pivotal role in the peopling of the Americas. Based on the distribution of tundra plants around the Bering Strait region, Eric Hultén proposed in the 1930s that the now-submerged plain between Chukotka and Alaska—the Bering land bridge—became a refugium for shrub tundra vegetation during cold periods (1), which include the last glacial maximum (LGM) between ∼28,000 and 18,000 cal BP (calibrated radiocarbon years before the… CONTINUE READING

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