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.
[8][7] Site use in historic time is indicated by the presence of artifacts such as tin cans, 30-30 rifle cartridges, an iron knife tang, an early-historic glass bottle and a moose bone flesher.
[4] Unlike the Broken Mammoth site, the remains of fauna and flora at Swan Point are comparatively few and poorly preserved.
The remains that were discovered include swan, goose and moose recovered from the mid to late Holocene zone.
[4] Because of its close proximity to the Broken Mammoth site it can be inferred that the climate at Swan Point was similar with lowland tundra and low vegetation.
Charcoal remains indicate wood from Populus and Willow which are associated with the oldest artifacts found at the site.
Some burned residue was found at this zone, implying that before the mid to late Holocene the site was only used as a temporary occupation without repeated use of fire.
[5] Sample 19529 contained lipids from a ruminant herbivore and plant material from seeds, indicating that bones from more than one species of animal fueled the fire of early Swan Point occupation hearths.
[5] The lithics in the earliest levels at Swan Point yielded microblades, which were not found at nearby Broken Mammoth and Meade sites.
[6] Swan Point also yields some unique triangular bifaces with corners and broken tips reworked into graver spurs.