The Beginning of Alaska

  • Period: 38,000 BCE to 34,000 BCE

    Migration

    The actual migration time
  • 30,000 BCE

    Ancestors of amerind Speakers

  • Period: 22,000 BCE to 15,000 BCE

    Migration

    The smart time to migrate
  • 16,000 BCE

    Ancestors of Na-Dine speakers

  • 16,000 BCE

    Ancestors of Eskimo-Aleut (Eskaleut) speakers

  • 13,000 BCE

    Costal Population

    Costal Populations would begin to move and expand to higher grounds
  • 10,000 BCE

    Costal Routes

    Costal routes are still frozen
  • 10,000 BCE

    How People moved to Alaska

    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)
  • Period: 9000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Nenana

    The Nenana Complex people lived in the north slopes of the Alaska Range
  • 8880 BCE

    Charlie Lake

    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
  • 8000 BCE

    Costal Routes

    Stone tool recovered 53 meters below present sea level
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 7500 BCE

    Migration

    More people migrated from Alaska from Asia
  • 1 BCE

    Costal Routes

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

    Bergia

    (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