Strait talk about the Bering Strait migration
I don’t know if I would go diving in the “black hole” but the video is pretty cool.
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Let’s get this strait
Bones of a teenage girl from about 13,000 years ago, suggest that there was only one migration across the Bering Strait. Differences in facial features are thought to be due to evolution and not due to two distinctly different groups migrating to North America. Watch the video below of the discovery of the skeleton in the “black hole”. The news article is here:
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/05/watch-bones-watery-black-hole-confirm-first-american-origins and the full article (behind a pay-wall) is here:
Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans
JC Chatters et al
Science 16 May 2014: 750-754.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6185/680.summary
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