Some Native Americans say anthropology, archaeology, ... Geologists have complicated matters by suggesting that the Bering Strait wasn’t passable until 10 or 12,000 years ago.

Several times in history, genetic studies show, Native Americans returned across the Bering Strait to Eurasia—long before Europeans began arriving in distant parts of the Americas.

The ancestors of Native Americans may have been landlocked in a region around the Bering Strait for 10,000 years before populating the Americas, a new paper argues.

Early Native Americans spent millenia living on the Bering Land Bridge now buried under water before they appeared in Alaska and the rest of the North America, researchers said Friday. The finding ...

Genetic and environmental evidence indicates that after the ancestors of Native Americans left Asia, they spent 10,000 years on a land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska. Archaeological ...

Native Americans lived in Bering Strait Researchers now have answers to a long-running mystery about where the people who first set foot on the New World survived the last Ice Age.

"Approximately 11 percent of Native Americans exhibit this genetic lineage," says Deborah Bolnick, a co-author of the paper reporting the findings, which appeared Thursday in the journal Science.

University of Cambridge/Newsweek The Bering Strait migration pattern Crawford thought his ancestors took to get here. The DNA test indicated otherwise. The late Willy Crawford lived on the ...

Science has long known that people living in what is now Siberia once walked (and later paddled boats) across the Bering Strait into North America.But new evidence now shows that these early ...

Other communities include Wales, population 160, at the edge of the American side of the strait; Gambell, also on St. Lawrence Island, with 600 residents; and Diomede, a tiny island community in ...

The ancestors of Native Americans may have lived on and around the Bering Strait for about 10,000 years before streaming into the Americas, researchers argue. In the new Perspectives article ...