The Beginning of Alaska

Migration

Period: 38,000 BCE to 34,000 BCE

The actual migration time

Ancestors of amerind Speakers

30,000 BCE

Migration

Period: 22,000 BCE to 15,000 BCE

The smart time to migrate

Ancestors of Na-Dine speakers

16,000 BCE

Ancestors of Eskimo-Aleut (Eskaleut) speakers

16,000 BCE

Costal Population

13,000 BCE

Costal Populations would begin to move and expand to higher grounds

Costal Routes

10,000 BCE

Costal routes are still frozen

How People moved to Alaska

10,000 BCE

Theory that it would have been possible to travel through a narrow passage or ice-free corridor to the east of the Rocky Mountains (old theory) or that a narrow area off the coast of southeastern Alaska was free of ice therefore people could have traveled along a treeless route, but no boats have been dating to this time (new theory)

Nenana

Period: 9000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

The Nenana Complex people lived in the north slopes of the Alaska Range

Charlie Lake

8880 BCE

Temporary occupations over the last 11000 years
The earliest level contains several stone artifacts 10770-120 BC
There are assorted animal remains
People moved up from the south to the north, following Bison

Costal Routes

8000 BCE

Stone tool recovered 53 meters below present sea level

Migration

Period: 4000 BCE to 7500 BCE

More people migrated from Alaska from Asia

Costal Routes

1 BCE

(Ignore Date Above)
Costal routes were an early "migration" route

Bergia

1 BCE

(Ignore Date Above)
People migrated to the Americas from Siberia by this route. Most early human populations of the Americas are descended from people who lived in Bergia