Bluefish Caves

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/bluefish-caves

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location?Yukon, Canada
2. What is the suggested age of human occupation?Approximately 24,000 years Before Present (BP)
3. Why do scientists think people might have lived there 24,000 years ago?They found animal bones that were dated to about 24,000 years old, and if those bones were left by people, it would show humans were there that long ago.
4. How do scientists know how old the bones are?They use radiocarbon dating, a method that measures how much of a special kind of carbon is left in the bones to tell how many years have passed.

Paleoindian: Relating to the earliest inhabitants of North America.
Stratigraphy: The study of rock layers and their sequence, crucial for dating archaeological finds.
Faunal Remains: The bones and other parts of animals found at an archaeological site.
Last Glacial Maximum: The peak period of glaciation during the last ice age, approximately 20,000 years ago.