ALASKA-SIZED SHORTCUT

Feb 28, 2025

A land bridge across the Bering Strait once connected Asia to the Americas. It was the way some peoples arrived there. In our mind’s eye, a land bridge seems like a narrow ridge or isthmus, but it was not that. The Bering land bridge was as wide as the state of Alaska—an expanse of wooded land full of game where migrating people may have lived for generations.