Bering Land Bridge

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ACHORAGE ОСТ FIRST AMERICANS CROSSED USAirmail50 12 1991 99599 AMERICA OVER FROM ASIA AK

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BERING LAND BRIDGE First Day of Issue: October 12, 1991 First Issue Location: Anchorage, Alaska Man is a newcomer to the New World and how he even arrived on the continent had puzzled scientists for de- cades. Today, however, the riddle is considered solved. Eons ago, a broad chunk of land connected Asia to North America, allowing the migration back and forth of not only man, but thousands of plant and animal species. This huge continent-sized mass of land, known misleadingly as the Bering Land “Bridge,” is now at the bottom of the Bering Sea, dividing modern-day Alaska and Siberia. It was over the Bering Land Bridge that the Clovis people — the first men in North America — trudged tens of thou- sands of years ago. The existence of these elephant hunters was confirmed in 1934 by scientist John L. Cotter at an excavation site near Clovis, New Mexico. This Maximum Card and the accompanying airmail stamp — part of the U.S. Postal Service's Americas series — re- member the people whose artifacts have outlasted even the Bering Land Bridge. No. 91-88 ©1991 The Maximum Card Collection A division of Unicover Corporation . Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 ® Original painting for the Maximum Card by Dennis Lyall