A Bronze Age In Alaska? Ancient Buckle Discovered
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 15:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast has been found in Alaska, apparently a buckle.There was no Bronze Age in Alaska, though it existed several thousand years earlier in Europe and Asia. Perhaps some of the earliest Inupiat Eskimos in northwest Alaska, thought to have migrated into Alaska from adjacent Siberia some 1,500 years ago, might have brought the object with them from the other side of the Bering Strait. The Inupiat Eskimos are believed to have occupied Cape Espenberg from about A.D. 1000 until the mid-1800s, said Hoffecker. They are part of the indigenous Eskimo culture that lives in Earth's circumpolar regions like Alaska, Siberia and Canada. read more