SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Beringia, Terra Nullius, Phil Fontaine
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53 mile jouney over the raised beds of the chuckti and bering seas. Geologists say there was dry land between 25000-11000: also dry land at a juncture of 75000-40000, there are those who argue for occupation between 75000-40000, but we have no evidence to prove this. They would not have been away that they were entering a new world", instead they would just be following their game. There are two possible routes: watercraft along the northwest coast, pedestrian terrestrial route across the bering land bridge and then. Based on similarities in physical appearance and genetic structures between historic native americans and siberians: skin color, dentition dental structures have different patters found in both. Diversity of west coast languages: amerind. First transfer from siberia: na-dene (athabaskan) Spoken by people of the northwest coast of canada and the. Cartier had three voyages to north america between 1534 and 1542: looking for a route to asia, america was in the way.