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The Tanana River / ˈ t æ n ə n ɑː / (Lower Tanana: Tth'eetoo', Upper Tanana: Tth’iitu’ Niign) is a 584-mile (940 km) tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [ n 1 ] According to linguist and anthropologist William Bright , the name is from the Koyukon (Athabaskan) tene no , tenene , literally "trail river".
Delta River. The homeland of Tanana Athabaskans is the Dfc climate type subarctic boreal forest of the Nearctic realm called Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga. Their lands are located in different two ecoregions: [46] The south of Tanana River, called Tanana-Kuskokwim Lowlands and this ecoregion forms an arch north of the Alaska Range and ...
The Swan Point Archeological Site is located in eastern central Alaska, in the Tanana River watershed. It is one of a collection of sites in the area that have yielded the oldest evidence of human habitation in the state, in addition to megafauna no longer found in Alaska, such as wapiti (elk), bison, and woolly mammoth.
The Upward Sun River site, or Xaasaa Na’, is a Late Pleistocene archaeological site associated with the Paleo-Arctic tradition, located in the Tanana River Valley, Alaska. Dated to around 11,500 BP, [1] Upward Sun River is the site of the oldest human remains discovered on the American side of Beringia. [2] The site was first discovered in 2006.
Broken Mammoth, Alaska is an archeological site located in the Tanana River Valley, Alaska, in the United States.The site was occupied approximately 11,000 to 12,000 years ago (10,000 - 9,000 BC) making this one of the oldest known sites in Alaska.
Tanana is located at the confluence of the tributary Tanana and the Yukon River. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 15.6 square miles (40 km 2 ), of which 11.6 square miles (30 km 2 ) of it is land and 4.0 square miles (10 km 2 ) of it (25.80%) is water.
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 .
Affluent of the Nenana River in McKinley Park, Alaska. The Nenana River (Lower Tanana: Nina No’) is a tributary of the Tanana River, approximately 140 miles (230 km) long, in central Alaska in the United States. [3] It drains an area on the north slope of the Alaska Range on the south edge of the Tanana Valley southwest of Fairbanks. [4]