“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Archaeologists uncover 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in Alaska, linking early carving traditions to Clovis culture ...

Two fossil bones long tagged as woolly mammoth have now been confirmed as whales after tests overturned their museum label.

The discovery could rewrite our understanding of North American human dispersion and and provide some insight into famed ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

The events that led to the peopling of the Americas remain shrouded in uncertainty, but researchers say that a hunter-gatherer hotspot in central Alaska may provide some clarity. Known as the Holzman ...

The unearthing of finely worked mammoth ivory tools in Alaska has pushed archaeologists to rethink when and how humans first ...

Phys.org reports that an excavation at the Holzman archaeological site in central Alaska’s Tanana Valley has uncovered ivory tools resembling those made by the people of the Clovis culture, whose ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory tools found at an archaeological site in Alaska suggests that these early ...

Even before becoming a state, Alaska was an oil producer. The Swanson Oil Field was discovered in 1957, bringing petroleum company interest right on the heels of the writing of ...

The new book by Lisa Weissler will thrill policy wonks and inform those seeking a clear-eyed understanding of how Alaska reached its present dysfunction.

MONO COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.0 magnitude quake was reported close to Mammoth Lakes Wednesday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.