Trail Creek Caves is a group of twelve caves discovered in the Bering Land Bridge National Park on Seward Peninsula , Alaska ( USA ). It is a significant site in terms of archeology in connection with the discovery of several artifacts of ancient hunters. These findings included stone tools , as well as fragments of bones that are about 8500 years old. Caves were first excavated in the late 1940s by Danish archaeologist Helge Larsen. Located along the Trail Creek River , near its confluence with the Cottonwood Creek [1] in the Northwest Arctic Borough . [2]
| Trail creek | |
|---|---|
| English Trail creek | |
| Specifications | |
| Opening year | 1928 |
| Enclosing rocks | Limestone |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| State | Alaska |
Notes
- ↑ American Beginnings: The Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia , Frederick West, ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996, p. 482.
- ↑ United States Geographic Names Information System: Trail Creek (Caves )