Recent carbon dating of many elements at a site called Swan Point indicates that mammoths and people existed at the same time in Alaska about 14,000 years ago.

Karen Spaleta, one of the new study's coauthors, takes a sample from a mammoth tusk found at Alaska's Swan Point archaeological site. She is deputy director of the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility.

Swan Point, Alaska’s earliest archeological site, has been a treasure trove for scientists, with mammoth remains having been unearthed at three other spots all within 10 km (6.2 miles) of where ...

Lanoë says the Swan Point and Hollembaek Hill specimens may be too old to be genetically related to other known, more recent dog populations. “Behaviorally, they seem to be like dogs, as they ...

Karen Spaleta, deputy director of the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility and co-author of the study, takes a sample from a mammoth tusk found at the Swan Point archaeological site in the Alaska interior.

Lanoë and his colleagues unearthed a tibia, or lower-leg bone, of an adult canine in 2018 at a longstanding archaeological site in Alaska called Swan Point, about 70 miles southeast of Fairbanks.

Wolves, then and now, mostly eat prey found on land, which in the case of ancient Alaska meant bison, mammoth and rodents. But the animal discovered at Swan Point got 57 percent of its sustenance ...

Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, ... A tusk from Elma was discovered at the Swan Point archaeological site ...

But Swan Point, dating back 14,000 years, is the oldest unequivocal archaeological site in Alaska. By the time people camped there, woolly mammoths had been in North America for about 100,000 years.