13,800-Year-Old Discovery in Alaska Rewrites American History

#archaeology, #ancienthistory, #alaska A dark oval in Alaska’s soil is at least 13,800 years old. Inside it, archaeologists found a hearth, a refuse pit, stone tools and traces of a possible shelter. The structure itself is gone, but the pattern left behind may be the oldest evidence of a home identified in the Western Hemisphere. More than 80,000 specimens came from the oldest layer. And the clues are not just what these people left behind. Some of their tools have counterparts across the Bering region, thousands of miles away, raising a question about who these people were and how connected their world was. Sources : https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh0802 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aem6534 https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/archaeologists-discover-the-oldest-dwelling-in-the-western-hemisphere-at-a-13-800-year-old-site-in-alaska https://alaskapublic.org/news/2026-11-11/interior-alaska-home-to-oldest-known-dwelling-in-western-hemisphere-research-shows https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1147586 https://archaeology.org/news/2026/10/20/cultural-connection-identified-between-prehistoric-sites-in-alaska-and-russia/