14,000-year-old Alaska campsite helps trace how the first people arrived in North America

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14,000-year-old Alaska campsite helps trace how the first people arrived in North America

A buried campsite in Alaska’s middle Tanana Valley offers fresh evidence about early human movement into North America. Excavations at the Holzman site along Shaw Creek reveal repeated human activity around 14,000 years ago, a period tied to major shifts in climate, animals, and landscapes near the end of the last Ice Age...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/how-first-people-arrived-in-north-america/

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