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The last giant of Beringia : the mystery of the Bering Land Bridge
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The last giant of Beringia : the mystery of the Bering Land Bridge

Author: Dan O'Neill
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since Jose de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea of a connection between the continents in 1590. But proof of the land bridge -- now named Beringia, after eighteenth-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering -- eluded scientists  Read more...
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Named Person: David Moody Hopkins; David Moody Hopkins
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dan O'Neill
ISBN: 0813341973 : 9780813341972
OCLC Number: 55141379
Description: vii, 231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Toast of Khabarovsk -- Ice age -- Hebe's son -- Calling -- Fieldwork in arctic Alaska -- Something going on -- Giddings -- Simultaneous equation -- Writing the bible -- Productivity paradox -- Mammoth fauna -- Soil from maars -- First Americans -- First of the first -- Last of the last -- Afterword -- Bibliographic notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Responsibility: Dan O'Neill.
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The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since Jose de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea of a connection between the continents in 1590. But proof of the land bridge -- now named Beringia, after eighteenth-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering -- eluded scientists until an inquiring geologist named Dave Hopkins emerged from rural New England and set himself to the task of solving the mystery. Through the life story of Hopkins, The Last Giant of Beringia reveals the fascinating science detective story that at last confirmed the existence of the land bridge that served as the intercontinental migration route for such massive Ice Age beasts as woolly mammoths, steppe bison, giant stag-moose, dire wolves, short-faced bears, and saber-toothed cats -- and for the first humans to enter the New World from Asia. After proving unambiguously that the land bridge existed, Hopkins then conclusively demonstrated that the Beringian landscape cannot have been the "polar desert" that many had claimed, but provided forage enough to sustain a diverse menagerie of Ice Age behemoths.

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