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  • DNA from a newly unearthed Alaska graveyard offers fresh knowledge about ancient Arctic populations

    02/23/2019 12:47:09 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 20 replies
    Arctic Today ^ | January 21, 2019 | Dermot Cole
    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...