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13,000–10,000 BC: Asiatic peoples reach Alaska

Anthropologists currently believe that Asiatic peoples migrated across Ice Age land bridges from eastern Siberia into western Alaska.

Theme: Land and Water

Region: Arctic, Northwest Coast, Subarctic

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Map of northwestern North America and the Russian Far East, including Bering Strait, showing the close proximity of the North American and Asian continents. Published in St. Petersburg, Russia by the Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1784.

Courtesy Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks