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The Tanana Valley is a lowland region in central Alaska in the United States, on the north side of the Alaska Range where the Tanana River emerges from the mountains. Traditional inhabitants of the valley are Tanana Athabaskans of Alaskan Athabaskans. ClimateThe region experiences great extremes of temperature during the year. During the winter months, the air is prone to stratification due to temperature inversions, leading to thick fogs. During the summer, the surrounding plains are generally boglike, and include much permafrost and many pingos. CommunitiesThe Tanana Valley is the most populated area of Alaska north of the Alaska Range. Its largest city is Fairbanks. Other communities include:
ArchaeologyAccording to James Q. Jacobs, Tanana Valley has the earliest evidence of human occupation in Alaska.
More recently, Tanana Valley sites have been dated to pre-Clovis period, or 13,000–14,000 cal yr BP.[5] SitesThe Broken Mammoth site, the Swan Point Archaeological Site, and the Mead Archaeological Site are the earliest dated sites in Alaska. They are located along the Tanana River. See also
Notes1. ^Cook 1996:327, Hamilton and Goebel 1999:156-157, Holmes 1996, Holmes, et al. 1996 2. ^Hoffecker et al. 1993:48, Goebel 1999:224 3. ^PALEOAMERICAN ORIGINS - A Review of Hypotheses and Evidence 4. ^Kunz and Reanier 1996:502 5. ^[https://www.jstor.org/pss/40316728 Tanana River Valley Archaeology circa 14,000 to 9000 B.P.]. Charles E. Holmes. Arctic Anthropology. Vol. 38, No. 2, Between Two Worlds: Late Pleistocene Cultural and Technological Diversity in Eastern Beringia (2001), pp. 154–170 External links
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