Archaeological investigation in northern Yukon Territory began in the 1960s with a group of researchers from Quebec and Ontario. Among leading figures, archaeologists Jacques Cinq-Mars and Richard Morlan devoted many years of their career investigating the Old Crow Basin and the Bluefish Caves, eventually suggesting an early human arrival in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum. At a time when the Clovis-First hypothesis dominated the mainstream thinking, archaeological evidence from northern Yukon were highly contested by the scientific community. About 30 years later, I undertook a full zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the faunal material from Bluefish Caves and showed that humans may have occupied the site as early as 23,500 years before present. Here I present the results of my research (also published in the Mercury Series, Archaeology Paper 179) and re-discuss the place of Bluefish Caves in the actual debate regarding the first people of the Americas.