Posted on 02/23/2019 12:47:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv
An ancient site on the shores of the Beaufort Sea... known as Nuvuk, which means tip or point, was an ideal spot for hunting and whaling and researchers believe it was occupied continuously for a millennium until the end of the 19th Century... About 20 years ago the deteriorating bluffs north of Utqiagvik began exposing a forgotten Nuvuk graveyard that had been used for hundreds of years, triggering a process to relocate dozens of graves to a protected site inland... So far, 85 graves have been unearthed from the site, making it the largest Thule cemetery ever excavated in North America. The Thule people were predecessors of the Inupiat and are believed to have migrated eastward from northern Alaska about 800 years ago... The molecular analysis was performed on individuals who lived at various times from more than 100 years ago to more than 1,000 years ago, the study says... He said, "I am comfortable saying that the genetic results now firmly support Thule origins on the North Slope," though more genetic tests on older human remains would be needed to say where earlier Native populations came from.
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