Archaeologists find oldest dwelling in Western Hemisphere at 13,800-year-old Alaska site

Archaeologists excavating the 13,800-year-old Shégˊ Xdaltthˊíˊ site in interior Alaska found a hearth, post stain, stone tools, bone needles and an antler pendant. The needles are the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, and the finds point to cultural links across Beringia with Siberia and North America.

• Shégˊ Xdaltthˊíˊ site near Fairbanks dates to 13,800 years ago
• Finds include a hearth, pit, post stain and earth oven with bones
• Eight bone needles are the oldest in the Western Hemisphere
• Obsidian was carried to the site from hundreds of miles northwest