Archaeologists excavating a 13,800-year-old site in Alaska have uncovered a treasure trove of artifacts and domestic features that shed new light on the life and culture of the people who settled into the region. Hunter-gatherers lived at this site, known as Shég’ Xdaltth’i’, near the end of the last Ice Age when the Bering Land Bridge provided a passageway between mainland Russia and Alaska.
Also today:
Long space missions may raise astronauts’ risk of hip fractures
Jet-lagged seabirds fly off course
Bad dads and supermales. The life-altering effects of estrogen on fish
Battery researcher wins Canada’s top science prize
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