The 24,000-Year-Old Bones Found In A Yukon Cave — And The Cut Marks That Pushed Humans In North America Farther Back In Time
The Difficulty of Finding Human Remains
One question that often arises in discussions of early American settlement is: why don’t we have human remains from the people who lived at sites like Bluefish Caves?
If people were processing animals in these caves 24,000 years ago, where are their bones?
The answer is both simple and frustrating: human remains from this period in Beringia are extraordinarily rare, for reasons that are as much about burial practices and taphonomy as about the actual population density of the region.
First, burial practices.
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