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BERINGIA Archaic Migrations to North America (Hardcover - 1 Feb 2011) “Beringia” shows comparisons,
examinations of the implications of linguistics from anthropological,
archaeological, folklore perspectives, and possible migratory roots of
indigenous people in North America. This book looks at the migration
of cultures from Asia to North America at the end of the Pleistocene era,
when favorable conditions existed due to the appearance of the Anadyrsk
strait near Chukot and later the Bering strait, both of which were still accessible
to migratory groups, probably by small boats or by traversing the ice in
winter. Evidence is also presented of a connection between the North American
Athabaskan language family and possibly the Ket people of Siberia. The origins of the earliest people
in the Americas is explored together with such topics as: Siberian, Dene and Navajo Creation myths,
also linguistic comparisons between Siberian Ket Navajo and Western Apache
languages an indigenous groups that
appear to share the same origin. A hypothesis of a Siberian-Yukon-Dene origin
of the Apache and the Navajo peoples is also explored together with the
comparison and examination of the implication of linguistics from anthropological, archaeological and folklore perspectives to assist
explain the origins of the earliest people in the Americas . The book considers a question that
many have raised of how North and South America became populated. Theories
abound of a north--south and vice-versa migration of different cultures. To obtain a better perspective,
modern methods are analyzed such as paleogeographic analysis similar to the
work of Canadian archaeologist, Jacques Cinq-Mars also specialists in
oceanography and glaciations regarding the coastline and of ocean Also the
study of flora and fauna to assist us to know more about the diet of these
migratory people. Anthropological evidence is scarce regarding the people of
the Pleistocene era. In both Siberia and in North America , therefore
emphasis is placed on the use of scientific techniques such as radiocarbon
dating and of Genetics (DNA) to allow us to learn more. Mythology from the Tutchone people
of the Yukon, is included due to its description of early volcanic activity
in the Yukon which combines Navajo folk tales of their migration south in an
archaic era that was caused by an ‘explosion’ of a mountain, which hints of
the geographical origin of that
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