Bering Land Bridge

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The Bering Land Bridge was a prehistoric landmass that once connected Asia and North America, enabling the migration of humans, animals, and plants between the continents during the Ice Ages.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Beringia 6
Bering Land Bridge canonical 3
Bering Land Bridge (concept name) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States national preserve
landform
paleogeographic feature
prehistoric land bridge
alsoKnownAs Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Beringia
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
causeOfExposure lowered sea levels
causeOfSubmergence rising sea levels
connects Asia
North America
enabledMigrationOf humans
large mammals
megafauna
plants
exposedDuring glacial periods
formedDuring Pleistocene epoch
hasProtectedArea Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
importantFor biogeographic exchange between Eurasia and North America
lastMajorUseByHumans late Pleistocene
locatedIn Alaska
Bering Strait region
present-day Alaska
present-day Russia
mostRecentExposure Last Glacial Maximum
namedAfter Vitus Bering
now submerged beneath the Bering Sea
paleoenvironment cold steppe-tundra
grassland
partOf continental shelf between Siberia and Alaska
protects remnants of the Bering Land Bridge region
relevanceTo First Americans debate
human migration theories
separatesNow Bering Sea
Chukchi Sea
significantFor peopling of the Americas
studiedIn archaeology
geology
paleoecology
paleontology
submergedDuring interglacial periods
supported bison
caribou
horses
mammoths
predators such as wolves
timePeriodActive multiple intervals between about 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago
usedBy Paleo-Indians
linked to: Paleo-Indian period

hunter-gatherer groups

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bering Strait historicalFeatureNearby Bering Land Bridge
Bering Land Bridge alsoKnownAs Beringia
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
Seward Peninsula hasEcoregion Beringia
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
Seward Peninsula partOf Bering Land Bridge region
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
Last Glacial Maximum causedExposureOf Bering Land Bridge
Anadyr River locatedInEcoregion Beringia
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
Beringian standstill hypothesis geographicFocus Beringia
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
Beringian standstill hypothesis relatedTo Beringia
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve associatedWith Beringia
linked to: Bering Land Bridge
Bering namesakeOf Bering Land Bridge (concept name)
linked to: Bering Land Bridge