Over the ice they came
Earliest Algonquians were adapted to life on glacial ice
Caption: Beringia
In his essay ‘Archaeology of the Northwest Coast’ for The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology (edited by University of Illinois’ own Timothy R. Pauketat, by the way) Herbert D.G. Maschner tells us of the most important refugium in the story of the peopling of the New World.
He wrote, “It is well known that during the p…
