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This 5 page paper discusses the evidence discovered in the Yukon which has been significant in determining the presence of early Americans. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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attempt to understand some of historys more puzzling mysteries, archaeologists may have uncovered some clues in the Yukon (Alaskan Refugium) which will provide some answers. The Yukon, which is
located in Alaska, was first populated by people, archaeologists state, who arrived there by crossing a great land bridge which spanned from Asia to Canada during the Pleistocene Ice Age
nearly ten thousand to twenty-five thousand years ago(Lundgurg 2003). This theory has held considerable weight in the past because of artifacts that were found in caves. Some of the artifacts
found were discarded stone tools, and animal bones. Reportedly, these were carbon-dated to be about twenty thousand years old. So, scientists were able to establish that humans were in
the Yukon and using tools nearly twenty thousand years ago, but in all honesty that doesnt show where they came from. They could have just as easily already been in
the Yukon. To answer this question, scientists needed to find human remains. They found one. In 1999, a group of teachers were shocked to come across a stick jutting out
of the frozen ground. When they examined it closer, they found that it was a carved walking stick. Further digging revealed a body. They immediately called for the authorities. The
carbon dating placed him at a time when the land barrier would have still been accessible. "Its incredible whats in the ice," said James Dixon, an archaeologist at the
University of Colorados Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research(McFarling 2003). Global warming is a frightening event, but for archaeologists the silver lining has been that the glaciers have been yielding
up some significant finds. Significant early clues to the presence of early Americans are being found. One report states that frozen caribou dung, preserved inside the glaciers have recently
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