The beach at Point Barrow, the northernmost point of Alaska, near the Nuvuk site where erosion revealed an ancient graveyard. (U.S. Coast Guard)
looks like a great clam beach - but the water probably is too cold.
tests on older human remains would be needed to say where earlier Native populations came from.
Think about that line for a moment. (Strictly speaking, are you a native if you came from somewhere else?)
DNA testing would supply all answers.
“The Thule people were predecessors of the Inupiat and are believed to have migrated eastward from northern Alaska about 800 years ago.”
Does that make the Thule the same group that eventually ejected diplaced the Medieval Norse from Greenland?
Looks like wandering herds of tracked vehicles were there earlier!
How many ancient diseases were unearthed?
