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On sea point alterations throughout the Wisconsin Glaciation, see Lambeck, Yoyoyama, and Purcell (2002). For conflicting models of Bering Land Bridge GLACIERS, SEA degrees, AND THE PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS sixty three grayson_ch03. indd sixty three 11/02/11 2:37 PM history throughout the heart Wisconsin, see Clague, Mathewes, and Ager (2004); Hoffecker and Elias (2007); and the assessment by way of P. M. Anderson and Lozhkin (2001); at the final of the Bering Land Bridge, see Elias et al. (1996), L. E. Jackson and Duk-Rodkin (1996), Manley (2002), and Keigwin et al. (2006). Manley (2002) presents a desirable animation of Bering Land Bridge heritage from the final Glacial greatest to this present day (http://instaar. colorado. edu/QGISL/bering_land_bridge). The crops of the Bering Land Bridge is mentioned via Elias et al. (1996); Elias, brief, and Birks (1997); Ager (2003); and Hoffecker and Elias (2007). There are a number of definitions of Beringia, yet they range little from each other; see, for example, P. M. Anderson and Lozhkin (2001) and Edwards et al. (2005). if you're contemplating swimming from Alaska to Siberia, learn L. Cox (2004) first. Fedje et al. (2004) offer a great evaluation of the earliest archaeology of the northwestern North American coast, in addition to a close research of the demanding situations and percentages provided by means of looking for very early websites during this geologically advanced zone. that there's desire for locating old fabrics offshore during this zone is proven through the truth that an obvious stone instrument of unknown age has been gathered from a intensity of 174 toes off the coast of British Columbia (Fedje and Josenhans 2000). To my wisdom, the mixed age and intensity list for archaeological fabric gathered from underneath the skin of the ocean is supplied via a set of twenty-eight hand axes dredged from the ground of the North Sea 8 miles east of the British coast. those got here from underneath approximately a hundred twenty five toes down—100 toes of water and 25 ft of sea-floor deposits. The artifacts are just like these made through Neanderthals and so most probably predate 40,000 years in the past (Holden 2008). Erlandson (2002) provides a concise, readable background of seafaring within the extra far away human prior. See O’Connell and Allen (2004); J. Allen and O’Connell (2008); and O’Connell, Allen, and Hawkes (2009) at the preliminary colonization of Australia; O’Sullivan et al. 2001 on Homo erectus on Flores; and Powledge (2006) at the Hobbit (which is what even archaeologists name this wonderful human form). Guthrie (2001), and the references it comprises, discusses his method of the significant Steppe. My dialogue of japanese Beringian biotas relies seriously on P. M. Anderson and Lozhkin (2001); P. M. Anderson, Edwards, and Brubaker (2004); Brubaker et al. (2005); and Edwards et al. (2005). For western Beringia, see P. M. Anderson and Lozhkin (2001); P. M. Anderson, Lozhkin, and Brubaker (2002); and Brigham-Grette et al. (2004). The chronology of the ice-free hall is mentioned through Mandryk et al. (2001); Clague, Mathewes, and Ager (2004); Dyke (2004); and L.