On 7/14/2019 10:19 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-07-14 8:48 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 7/14/2019 6:10 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>>> It has been melting back for 15,000 year, ever since a glacier
>>> deposited a hell of a lot of sand and gravel less than a mile north
>>> of my house.
>>
>> Apropos of not much: allegedly there used to be a land mass connecting
>> Russia with Alaska.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia
>>
>> This "land bridge" disappeared into the sea some 13,000 years ago
>> after the last ice age.Â* The face (and atmosphere) of the earth has
>> always been in a state of flux.
>
> I am confused about that. They say that when the glaciers melted the
> water rose and submerged the land-bridge.Â* That leave me wondering how
> it would not have been under the ice when the ice caps grew so much they
> covered most of North America.Â* Since the ice was solid, people could
> have come across on an ice bridge.
>
Allegedly they did, Dave. I don't pretend to be any sort of expert in
ice age history and early peoples or civilizations. But I'm interested
in them. I'm interested archeology and anthropology so when I see
something on TV (usually a PBS channel, or Discovery or History) I'll
stop and watch.

Some archeologists and forensic anthropologists believe ancestors of the
(current) Alaskan native peoples crossed that frozen bridge eons ago.
There seems to be some evidence of that. It's an interesting premise.

These days, DNA could be used to determine a link between decendants of
"native Alaskans" and people living in the remote areas of as what we
think of as Russia was 13,000 years ago. They could possibly determine
if there were any genetic links. Might prove there was a land
bridge/ice bridge at one time.

I'm sure they've thought of this. I'd guess it's hard to know where to
look for familial links on the other side of the Bering Strait to get
DNA samples. People who still live in remote areas? Remote areas, like
Inuit villages? Interesting.

Jill