Many websites feature animated and interactive maps of global human migrations. Here are just a few:

The website of the Bishop Museum in Hawai’i is an excellent source of information on Pacific island cultures, sites, and collections: https://www.bishopmuseum.org/. Visitors can access data online at http://www.bishopmuseum.org/data/, and visit the Ho'omaka Hou Research Initiative Online Fishhook Database at http://data.bishopmuseum.org/archaeology/index.php?b=i

Hawaii’s Division of State Parks website provides general information on Pacific island cultures and Polynesian archaeology at  https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dsp/archaeology-history/

For one of the best online sources on the peopling of the New World, check out the Center for the Study of the First Americans at http://csfa.tamu.edu.

The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, at http://instaar.colorado.edu/ provides a colorful animation of the Bering Land Bridge in one thousand-year increments beginning at 21,000 years ago. http://instaar.colorado.edu/QGISL/bering_land_bridge/downloads/beringlandbridge11.mov. in

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