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Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Arctic Ocean May Alter Views of Human Migration
10-11-2006 · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)Scientists have found new evidence that the Bering Strait near Alaska
flooded into the Arctic Ocean about 11,000 years ago, about 1,000 years
earlier than widely believed, closing off the land bridge thought to be
the major route for human migration from Asia to the Americas.
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