What do 1973 Yukon dig reports say, and did labs confirm the dates?

Research question: What do the primary radiocarbon and stratigraphic reports for the 1973 Northern Yukon artifacts say, and did independent labs replicate the pre-glacial-peak dates?

The records show that the source reports new radiocarbon dates on four artifacts once thought to be Pleistocene, and the dates point to a Holocene age ¹. The text is truncated, so it gives no stratigraphic details and no independent lab replication ¹. For Bluefish Caves, the initial radiocarbon dating suggested about 24,000 years before present ², and a 2017 PLOS ONE study also indicated an age of about 24,000 years ⁵. The provided facts do not establish that independent laboratories replicated these pre-glacial-peak dates, and the one study that names its lab used only the NSF Arizona AMS Laboratory without describing replication ⁸. The newest dated fact is from 2018 ⁸, about eight years before October 2026, and the provided facts do not directly cover the 1973 artifacts ¹.

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