The 10,300-Year-Old Man Found Inside An Alaskan Island Cave — And The DNA Test That Revealed 10,000 Years Of Native Coastal Continuity

That story was waiting in the cave for 10,300 years.

It will not be forgotten again.

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The Alexander Archipelago as Corridor

The specific geography of the Alexander Archipelago — its orientation along the coast, its complex system of protected inner waterways, and its position at the junction of the open Pacific and the sheltered Inside Passage — gives it a specific significance in the broader story of how people moved along the Pacific coast of North America.

The Inside Passage, which runs for approximately 1,500 kilometers from Puget Sound in Washington State to Skagway, Alaska, is one of the most navigable stretches of coastline in the world.