The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge
by O'Neill, Dan

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The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge: The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since Jose de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea of a connection between the continents in 1590. But proof of the land bridge--now named Beringia after eighteenth-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering--eluded scientists until an inquiring geologist named Dave Hopkins emerged from rural New England and set himself to the task of solving the mystery. Through the life story of Hopkins, The Last Giant of Beringia reveals the fascinating science detective story that at last confirmed the existence of the land bridge that served as the intercontinental migration route for such massive Ice Age beasts as woolly mammoths, steppe bison, giant stag-moose, dire wolves, short-faced bears, and saber-toothed cats--and for the first humans to enter the New World from Asia. In proving irrefutably that the land bridge existed, Hopkins also demonstrated conclusively that, far from the "polar desert" that many had claimed, but provided forage enough to sustain a diversemenagerie of Ice Age behemoths.

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ISBN-10:	0813341973
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780813341972
Author:	O'Neill, Dan
Publisher:	Westview Press Boulder, Colorado
Publication Date:	5/2004
Pages:	231 pages
Size/Dimensions:	8.5" x 5.98" x 0.85"
Binding:	Hardcover

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The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridgeby O'Neill, Dan

The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge
by O'Neill, Dan