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Originally Posted by HarryT
Would it necessarily have been seen as "migrating", do you think? During the last ice age, there was a land bridge between present-day Siberia and Alaska. To nomadic peoples such as occupied the region, wouldn't it all have seemed to be just one area? That's how it seems to me, anyway.
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The term "land bridge" is misleading, seeming to imply a narrow passage between the two continents. But it was actually thousands of miles wide-- North America and Asia were for all practical porpoises (and seals) a single continent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas
Asking why people would migrate for Asia to America is no more meaningful than asking why people would migrate from any point x in Asia to any point y in Asia.