The similar cultures of peoples across the Bering Strait in both Siberia and Alaska suggest human travel between the two places ever since the strait was formed.[1] After Paleo-Indians arrived during the Last Glacial Period and began the settlement of the Americas, a second wave of people from Asia came to Alaska around 8000 BCE. These "Na-Dene" peoples, who share many linguistic and genetic similarities not found in other parts of the Americas, populated the far north of the Americas and only made it as far south as Oasisamerica. It is suggested that by 4000–3000 BCE Paleo-Eskimo peoples began coming to the Americas from Siberia. Eskimo tribes live today in both Asia and North America and there is much evidence that they lived in Asia even in prehistory.[2]
- ^ Jordan Paper (August 1993). "A Material Case for a Late Bering Strait Crossing Coincident with Pre-Columbian Trans-Pacific Crossings". Sino-Platonic Papers. No. 39. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
- ^ Vajda, Edward. "The Siberian Origins of Native Americans". Archived from the original on December 30, 2018. Retrieved August 3, 2018.