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Natural PlacesSite Name: Bluefish CavesCountry: Canada
NOTE: This site is 886.985 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Fairbanks, Alaska Nearest Village: Old Crow, Yukon Territory
Latitude: 67.131889N Longitude: 140.792889W
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
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A group of three caves in Yukon Territory which contained stone and bone tools and apparently butchered horse, bison, and caribou. The oldest evidence (widely accepted) dates to around 13,000 years, probably belonging to the palaeoarctic culture. Lower layers of artifacts go back as far as 25,000 years, but with very limited evidence of human presence - difficult to clearly interpret and obviously controversial. Photo: The Bluefish Caves exhibit at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse.
The site was discovered by a fishing expedition in 1976 and excavated in the late 1970's by Dr. Jacques Cinq-Mars. No human remains have been found in the caves.
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