In the early 1960s, ecologist Paul Martin of the University of Arizona postulated that the first Americans, after crossing into the Americas over the Bering Land Bridge, hunted the megafauna to ...

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ruled by strange megafauna. Around 30,000 years ago, the Paleo-Indians, ancestors of Native Americans, crossed the Beringia land bridge into Alaska. Today, we explore the Clovis People ...

who as every schoolchild knows are thought to have crossed from Siberia to America across the Bering Land Bridge, hunted the megafauna to extinction. For many years, "overkill" became the leading ...