Language 'evolution' may shed light on human migration out-of-Beringia
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Evolutionary analysis applied to the relationship between North American and Central Siberian languages may indicate that people moved out from the Bering Land Bridge, with some migrating back to central Asia and others into North America, according to a paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 12, 2014 by Mark Sicoli, from Georgetown University and Gary Holton from University of Alaska Fairbanks.