Address Restricted, Big Delta, Alaska. County/parish: Southeast Fairbanks.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 26, 2008. NRIS 08000929.
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The Swan Point Archeological Site is located in eastern central Alaska, in the Tanana River watershed. It is one of a collection of sites in the area that have yielded the oldest evidence of human habitation in the state, in addition to megafauna no longer found in Alaska, such as wapiti (elk), bison, and woolly mammoth. Finds co-located with human artifacts at the site have given radiocarbon dates of 14,000 years, indicating the site was occupied around 12,000 BCE. Swan Point is the oldest archaeological site in the Americas whose age is not disputed.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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