How the division of the Americas from the rest of the world
affected human history. In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had
evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out
to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age.
Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice
sheets, several miles thick, the levels of the world's oceans were
much lower than they are today, and early humans were able to walk
across the Bering Strait, then a land bridge, without getting their
feet wet and enter the Americas. Then, the Ice Age came to an end,
the Bering Strait refilled with water and humans in the Americas
were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division -
with two great populations on Earth, each oblivious of the other -
continued until Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America just
before 1500 A.D. This is the fascinating subject of THE GREAT
DIVIDE, which compares and contrasts the development of humankind
in the 'Old World' and the 'New' between 15,000 B.C. and 1500 A.D.
This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that, when
these factors are taken together, they offer a uniquely revealing
insight into what it means to be human. THE GREAT DIVIDE offers a
masterly and totally original synthesis of archaeology,
anthropology, geology, meteorology, cosmology and mythology, to
give a new shape - and a new understanding - to human history.
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