Archeology

A group of University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers and students that spent six weeks at an archeological site just west of the city are compiling…

A new study headed up by two UAF archeologists proves for the first time that people who lived in this area more than 11,000 years ago ate salmon, in…

University of Alaska archeologists have announced the discovery of an 1,800-year-old human footprint at a site south of Fairbanks. It’s the oldest such…

Four Fairbanks-area high-schoolers got a chance to get down and dirty last month as part of a class that helps them learn how archeologists uncover the…

Quartz Lake is shrinking -- the water level of the popular lake just north of Delta Junction is dropping. And while researchers try to find out why,…

UAF archeology professor Ben Potter and an international team of scientists he worked with has discovered evidence of a previously unknown, ancient people…

Anthropologists with the University of Alaska Fairbanks say a site they’re excavating near the Delta River west of Fort Greely was first inhabited by…

Climate change and the settlement of the New World …Long before climate change became politically-heated buzzwords, archeologists were using the term to…

An Arctic pathway for indigenous peoples ancestors …A new study suggests archeologists should take another look at an inland route humans may have taken…

Climate change is destroying the historical record of Arctic peoples.Josh Reuther opens the heavy door to the artifact repository at the University of…