What is the meaning of Beringia?

Beringia is a large area around today's Bering Strait, associated with the time when the sea levels were 200 m (656 ft) lower than the present and the huge ground bridge connected together by Asia and North America. This ground bridge was about 1,000 miles (1600 km) from north to south. The term "Beringia" concerns the large area of ​​Tundra in the region, which was colonized by small belts of nomadic people between about 22,000 and 16,000 years. The only reason Beringia was habitable at the time was that the heavily veiled Alaskan range, which is located east, absorbed a large part of the snowfall in the area and created a "snow shadow" that prevented glaciers from forming in the Beringian tundra.

Genetic testing of modern people associated with anthropological evidence suggests that during the latest glacier maximum, the population of people has been isolated from its Asian ancestors in the Beringia region for at least 5,000 years. During this time the whole region in Beringia would serve as an ecological refugium for Flora and FAUNA in an area that would otherwise be expelled south or smoothed due to the progressing glaciers. For some time, Beringia could actually be surrounded by the wall of glaciers that prevented something from traveling in or out.

heads of darts, stone axes, carved bones and the remains of people and domesticated dogs were found in places in what was left of Beringia, although most interesting places are probably submerged. It is remarkable that people have been able to survive for thousands of years in this cold climate. They had to deal with low temperatures and hostile animals, such as cave hyenas, which competed with people about cave places and prey to young, old and/or weak. The oldest proof of the human dwellings on Alaska is parallel to the local extinction of cave hyenas, which leads to some scientists to postulate that cave hyenas have prevented people from traveling east and North America, as lEdovce melted.