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Originally Posted by kennyc
Maybe you don't think it has meaning, but I do and I'm sure others do as well, particularly depending on the conditions at the time.
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My point is, the difference between crossing the wide expanse of land of the Bering land bridge and crossing the wide expanse of land of Asia, or the wide expanse of land of North America is only significant in retrospect. The migrants who became the paleoindians never stopped to think "wow, thousands of years from now these thousands of miles of land, which look exactly like the thousands of miles of land behind us and the thousands of miles of land behind us, will be under the ocean."
The light brown on the image (cropped from the Wikipedia entry) represents dry land-- a strip over 2,000 miles wide from north to south. I highly doubt that the reasons people migrated from E to F was different from reasons to migrate from A to B, or C to D, or G to H.
They didn't know that, thousands of years later, that land would be under water.
