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Lights, camera, action! 🎬

Today and tomorrow, we're down at the Yukon Palaeontology lab filming with Dr. Grant Zazula and Elizabeth Hall. These videos will be incorporated into some of the new exhibits coming to our main exhibit hall. Filming continues next week with more experts.

As always, don't forget to check out for more behind the scenes content from the main hall exhibit renewal.

#beringiabts #beringia

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AKNativeNews · @AKNativeNews
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Changing climate conditions likely facilitated early human migration to the Americas at key intervals
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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers have pinpointed two intervals when ice and ocean conditions would have been favorable to support early human migration from Asia to North America late in the last...
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age

#ice #migration #america #beringia

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" —a now-inundated landmass that once connected to  and ... "

"From the , three hollows in a remote limestone ridge in northern Yukon, have unearthed some of the oldest known signs of human occupation in . Today, these caves are providing scientists with a glimpse into the lives of the Beringian hunters who used them nearly 24,000 years ago."

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#beringia #siberia #alaska #yukon #bluefish #caves #archaeologists #northamerica

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AKNativeNews · @AKNativeNews
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Bering Land Bridge formed surprisingly late during last ice age
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Bering Land Bridge was flooded until 35,700 years ago

A new study shows that the Bering Land Bridge, the strip of land that once connected Asia to Alaska, emerged far later during the last ice age than previously thought.

The unexpected...
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sea bridge age level

#beringia #bering #land #ice #formation #sea

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grateful wolf · @gratefulwolf
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‘Beringia land bridge traffic more 2-way than previously thought’ story of the week… “Remains of ancient shaman suggest early humans undertook ‘vast’ migrations” - Idaho Statesman
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#beringia #siberia #altai #neolithic

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CellBioNews · @cellbionews
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Kevin Winker · @kevinwinker
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grateful wolf · @gratefulwolf
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'later than previously thought’ story of the week… "Bering Land Bridge formed surprisingly late during last ice age" research.princeton.edu/news/be

#lastglacialmaximum #beringia #palaeoclimate

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Thomas Holtz · @Arctomet
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Jesse R Farmer,Tamara Pico, Ona M Underwood, Rebecca Cleveland Stout, Julie Granger, Thomas M Cronin, François Fripiat, Alfredo Martínez-García, Gerald H Haug & Daniel M Sigman (2022)
The Bering Strait was flooded 10,000 years before the Last Glacial Maximum
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(1): e2206742119
doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220674211
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206

#newpaper #paleoclimatology #paleogeography #beringia

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root@eruditorum.œrg · @root2702
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DOC: This shovel handle is itself a 5,000-year-old ‘fact that could fetch a high price on Cradle. It was thrown away because it was of no use to its owners, who knew that they could get wooden poles anywhere in just by cutting down a tree.
KATH TWO: What sort of people think that iron is valuable & 5,000-year-old artifacts are garbage?
[She was interrupted by a faint high-pitched beeping sound that was emanating from all of them at once.]

#beringia #seveneves

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Kevin Winker · @kevinwinker
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I am Curator of Birds at the University of Alaska Museum and a Professor in the Department of Biology & Wildlife at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I work on and...

In our research group we primarily use a specimen-based approach. It’s an exciting time to be a biologist. Glad to see so many interesting colleagues and discussions on this site.

#introduction #ornithology #Evolution #Speciation #populationgenetics #Genomics #collections #specimens #evolutionaryecology #beringia #Pathogens

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