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spit was breached) until seasonal ice melt impeded access, then shifted operations to Piġniq for the rest of the season. Over the three seasons, several cuts were excavated at Nuvuk. The material has yet to be published to any great extent. There are several preliminary reports and a so-called Final
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Another feature is a whaling captain's work area likely from the 1870s or 80s, based on the combination of
Euroamerican and traditional whaling gear. It was first exposed during geomorphological work on the erosion face in 2006 and was completely eroded within two years, before which only portions
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barge under the command of Thomas Elson and
William Smyth made it as far as Point Barrow and the settlement of Nuvuk. By the early 1850s the residents of Nuvuk were aware of other European and American ships, and in some cases may have seen them while traveling, but the next ship to actually reach
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Researchers recorded the remnants of two
Ipiutak structures which repent the first evidence of the Ipiutak north of Point Hope. They were located beneath the Thule and Iñupiat occupations, which were already known at Nuvuk. Nearly 3 ft 3 in (1 m) of sterile gravel separated these
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Archaeology Project (NAP) started after the repeated finding of eroding graves. The main focus of the NAP was the excavation of a cemetery that was discovered eroding at Nuvuk. Over 90 burials have been excavated from the eroding spit. They range in age from at least the Early to Late
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the name means "point" or "promontory of land" and refers both to the landform and the village. Archaeological evidence indicates that Point Barrow was occupied for over 1,500 years prior to the arrival of the first
Europeans. Occupation continued into the 1940s. The headland is an important
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Raff, Jennifer A.; Rzhetskaya, Margarita; Tackney, Justin; Hayes, M. Geoffrey (April 17, 2015). "Mitochondrial diversity of Iñupiat people from the
Alaskan North Slope provides evidence for the origins of the Paleo- and Neo-Eskimo peoples".
124:(IPY). Although the expedition was primarily to collect meteorological and magnetic data, it produced one of the most important references for pre-and post-contact north Alaskan archaeology. The expedition purchased a large collection of
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Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R. N., F.R.S. &c. in the years 1825, 26, 27,
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structures from more recent occupation evidence; the beach ridge and sea level were much lower in
Ipiutak times. One of the two loci suggested a catastrophic termination of the occupation by a storm surge, based on a
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overwintered in 1852 and 1853 in Elson Lagoon, adjacent to the village of Nuvuk. The village residents and the crew interacted quite a bit and
Maguire recorded a considerable amount of information on the community.
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deposit which cut across the archaeological deposit. This material is dated to 300–400 cal AD, an early date for
Ipiutak cultural material. Both loci were completely eroded within two months of their discovery.
132:(Barrow). Expedition member John Murdoch recorded ethnographic information and wrote a volume covering that as well as an exhaustive description of the material culture collected by the expedition.
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began his archaeological work on the North Slope in 1931. He had a full field season in 1932, working between Nuvuk and Walakpa, although his excavations at Nuvuk were quite limited.
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