The Beringian Standstill

The Beringian Standstill: The Forgotten Dawn of the AmericasHow an Ice Age refuge shaped the first peoples of the New WorldAt the height of the last Ice Age, a bridge of frozen earth connected Siberia and Alaska - a vast lost world known as Beringia. For thousands of years, a small population of humans lived here, trapped between walls of ice. They hunted mammoths, followed the rhythms of endless twilight, and built a culture that would one day give rise to the first peoples of the Americas.Then, the ice began to melt - and the world changed forever.In The Beringian Standstill: The Forgotten Dawn of the Americas, you'll journey into the deep past to uncover one of humanity's most mysterious chapters. Drawing on cutting-edge genetics, archaeology, and climatology, this book reveals how our ancestors survived a 10,000-year pause in migration, what their lives may have been like in this Ice Age refuge, and how their descendants carried that legacy across two continents.From the mythic landscapes of the mammoth steppe to the underwater ruins of the Bering Sea, this is the untold story of the people who waited - and shaped the future of an entire hemisphere.