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Alaska site holds oldest known dwelling in the Americas
The base camp in interior Alaska, led by Kelly Graf of the University of Kansas, yielded thousands of artifacts, an earth oven and eight bone needle fragments.
On air: Vera Bullock on BBN NewsroomPublished
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- First reported by IFLScience: “This Is The Site Of The Oldest Known Dwelling In The Americas – Dated To 13,800 Years Ago – With What Might Be Its Earliest Domestic Dogs”.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 1:19 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Vera Bullock.
- Topics: Americas, Alaska.
- BBN covered this story before: The Americas, Seen From Four Moons Away (October 19).
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Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorArchaeologists in interior Alaska say they've found the oldest known dwelling in the Americas, a thirteen thousand eight hundred year old base camp.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWith us is Ottoline Marsh, a retired surveyor from Fairbanks. What do you make of a house that's mostly a stain?
Ottoline MarshI'd call it a lean-to with good bones, or no bones, actually.
Ottoline MarshThey found a hearth, a small pit and a dirt mark where a wooden post stood, and I measured it on a map in my head, about nine feet across.
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The story so far
- Donor sues Guilfoyle, threatens Trump dirt over extradition · New York Post
- Earliest pet dogs in the Americas may have lived at Alaska site · Live Science
- A Whole Planet, Photographed From Very Far Away · NASA
- The Americas, Photographed From Four Moons Away · NASA
- Alaska dig: 'canid' replaces 'dog' as a consultant weighs in · cristinaiglesias.com
- The Americas, Seen From Four Moons Away · NASA
- Alaska site holds oldest known dwelling in the Americas (this story)
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