Drowned Highways: The Violent Erasure of the Bering Land Bridge

The first humans to populate the Americas did not arrive by boat; they walked across a massive, flourishing continent that connected modern-day Siberia to Alaska. This was Beringia, a sprawling, ice-free steppe that served as the ultimate prehistoric superhighway. And then, it vanished entirely beneath the ocean. As the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures surged, causing the massive continen...