Horses were among the most economically important prey animals in the Beringian landscape, and evidence of horse butchery is evidence of a subsistence strategy appropriate to the specific environmental conditions of eastern Beringia during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Surviving the Last Glacial Maximum

The question of how people could survive in eastern Beringia during the Last Glacial Maximum — the harshest climatic period of the last Ice Age — is one that tends to produce a specific kind of reaction when first encountered: surprise bordering on disbelief.

How could people live there?

How cold was it?

What did they eat?

How did they stay warm?