The Beringia, Or Bering Sea Land Bridge

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The Beringia, or Bering Sea Land Bridge, Theory is a widely accepted theory about the migration of Native Americans from Eurasia to the Americas. It proclaims that the first Americans came to America by way of a land bridge through the Bering Strait, spanning from Asia to Alaska, with the mastodons, mammoth, and other prey. However, this has one problem. The oldest artifacts were found not in Alaska or Canada, but in Chile! I believe this is because the first Americans came not from Asia, but from Africa or Europe. They came to Central, South, and lower North America. Thus, the southern tribes, not the northern, were first. I know that the Beringia was not the first journey to America, but science and history still hold is as an important

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