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Oldest Rock in Alaska is near Iditarod

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Mar 30, 2019 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

IDITAROD, ALASKA — While gliding along a trail that had just felt the imprint of 2,000 dog feet, Bob Gillis skied over to a rock that jutted from the snow. A few miles northwest of the ghost town that gives the world’s most famous sleddog race its name, Gillis and I were in the […]

Archaeologists Discover Remains of Ice Age Infants in Alaska

By Mariam Grimes | UAF Cornerstone on Nov 12, 2014 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

The remains of two Ice Age infants, buried more than 11,000 years ago at a site in Alaska, represent the youngest human remains from that era ever found in northern North America, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The site and its artifacts provide new insights […]