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Bering Land Bridge Theory
The Land Bridge, Also known as the Bering Land Bridge. Is the popular model of migration into the new world. The first people to populate the Americans were believed to have migrated across the Bering Land Bridge. The Land Bridge Theory proposes that people migrated from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that spanned the current day Bering Strait. This theory is widely adopted by most modern textbooks

The continent of North America has been inhabited by humans for at least 16,500 years. As early as the 1500s, scientist and theorists were interested in discovering how humans had come to populated North and South America. The theory suggested the migration of Norsemen across Greenland into North America. The other theory proposed the

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