Beringia
In the world of History and Science, there has always been the lingering question of how did the first people actually get to the America's? In recent years new theories of how the first people got to the America's have appeared. These theories include the Atlantic route, the Pacific route, and the coastal route. Along with these theories are the Indigenous and the first recognized theory the land bridge or the Clovis theory. The land bridge theory, being the first and most famous has much evidence to support its claims to how the first people came to the America's.
The first piece of evidence that supports the land bridge theory or the Clovis theory is that during the ice age in the Pleistoraene Era, the sea levels would have been lower in the Bering sea (Lebel & Orr). Because or the low sea levels there could have been a grassy plain known as Beringia linking Siberia with Alaska (Lebel & Orr). This evidence suggests that there would have been a path in which the first......
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