Ben Potter

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…

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…