25,000 - 12,000 B.P. Beringia: A Place To Get Away From it All

Lower sea levels exposed a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. Fish, birds, animals and insects migrated back and forth across this bridge into the ice-free area of the Yukon known as eastern Beringia.

Human beings migrated across the land bridge following animal herds and entered the Yukon about 24,000 years ago.

12,000 - 9,000 BP Where Did They Go?

About 40 species of large mammals became extinct in North America, including dire wolf, mammoths, mastodons and giant beavers. Two hypotheses for this wave of extinction are human overhunting and climate change.