| McDonald Creek Site
The McDonald Creek Site is in the Tanana Flats, located on a prominent hill that overlooks the wide open Tanana River valley below. It would have made an ideal hunting lookout or short-term camping area for hunter-gatherers thousands of years ago. Artifacts recovered from the site include stone tools and flakes. Bones and teeth from animals like bison, waterfowl, and snowshoe hare show they may have been eaten by the people who used the site. Based on where artifacts were found within sediment layers, we can tell the site was occupied during at least two distinct time periods. Charcoal samples and animal bone fragments found in association with artifacts were radiocarbon dated to the mid-Holocene, about 7,000 years ago, and the late Pleistocene, between 10,000 and 14,000 years ago.
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