Little John

Little John is an archaeological site in Yukon, Canada, about twenty-five kilometers northwest of Beaver Creek in the White River First Nation area. Among the oldest known sites in Beringia, it has yielded human artefacts and ancient animal bones dating to about fourteen thousand years before present. Located at the edge of the Mirror Creek glacial advance within central Yukon’s Reid glacial events, it was excavated between 2002 and 2017 under anthropologist Norman Alexander Easton. Radiocarbon dating of a human-butchered bison bone to between thirteen thousand seven hundred twenty and fourteen thousand fifty years old made the site important to debates over when people first moved into the Americas.

Yukon · Canada