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Archaeologists digging at a 13,800-year-old website in interior Alaska have actually uncovered countless artifacts and fossils, including what might be the bones of the earliest domesticated pet dogs in the Americas, the earliest needles and homes in the Western Hemisphere, and stone tools that expose cultural connections throughout the Bering Land Bridge

At a website called Shégˊ Xdaltthˊíˊ (which implies “They Were There” in the Alaska Native Athabascan language), about 34 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Fairbanks, archaeologists have actually excavated an encampment that a few of the very first individuals to settle in North America utilized on and off for a millennium.

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