I wonder if this is what Doggerland was like too? Because they found evidence of occupation, and people keep finding submerged structures which look like fish stock pens, things you make when somewhere is above sealevel "mostly" or in the strand.<p>I wonder if there are artifacts deep in Bering St ooze?
The fact that people crossed this in an arctic climate with Stone Age technology is insane. In some ways it sounds harder than trying to be an early settler of the Moon or Mars with today’s technology — at least in that case you would have medicine, climate control, nutritional science, etc.<p>The Polynesian settlement of the archipelago is pretty hard core too. Long range long duration ocean voyages with canoes and star navigation. They made it to f’ing Hawaii.<p>Of course I’m sure many people died in all these migrations… which makes it even crazier that people did it. Things like the Trail of Tears were forced but I’m not aware of anyone forcing this.<p>Makes me think about what wimps most of us (including myself) are today.
Super easy for humans to get around - much better than a forest. If you have canoes, fishtraps, fire and portable shelters as technology then a pretty good environment to live in as well. I should imagine that over a period of time people will have simply colonised the whole area and then colonised over into NA rather than migrating to follow game or for some other reason.
> It’s worth noting that the name “Bering Land Bridge” is often misleading. The landscape was not a literal bridge<p>riveting science reporting from gizmodo
I'm a bit confused - why wouldn't it have been under a ton of ice? I thought most of the northern hemisphere was under ice at the time - but from the description it sounds almost temperate.
After hearing many war stories about Siberian winters from a colleague, I asked why they didn't do field work in summer instead. The reply was short: mosquitos and mud.<p>(they could pretty much only travel to their field sites after the ground was frozen enough to permit it)
speculating, but it seems that durring the phase when the oceans were droping, it would have been arid , with high cold plains/step conditions in much of the sub artic, and pockets of tundra and muskeg, all dependent on average temperature, prceipitation and topography. The turn to ocean rise would have to see increased precipitation and average temperatures, so the top layers of core samples would reflect the conditions, before the land was submerged permanently......swampy, kind of like a lot of low lying areas today.....