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DigsSite Name: NunalleqCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 570.99 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Alaska Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Quinhagak, AK
Latitude: 59.753000N Longitude: 161.903W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Finds are rapidly being uncovered as the arctic perafrost melts. Communial house sites (partially below ground square buildings of drift wood, covered by earth and snow) and many household artifacts have been found. Finds include ivory, woven grass, incredibly well preserved animal remains, animal fur and human hair.
The University of Aberdeen Department of Archaeology, in partnership with the village corporation Qanirtuuq, Inc. and the Yup’ik Eskimo village of Quinhagak, Alaska, is working to record archaeological sites threatened by rising sea levels along the Bering Sea.
Nunalleq means ‘the OldVillage’ in Yup’ik. and was occupied from 1350-1650AD, during the "Little Ice Age". The waterlogged frozen tundra preserves organic material to an incredible degree. Everything from grass ropes, salmon berry seeds and head lice, along with an abundance of wooden and lithic artefacts and faunal remains builds the knowledge of a Yup’ik prehistory that up until now has been very little known or studied.
Note: More spectacularly well preserved finds such as this human / animal transformational mask uncovered by the 2013 dig season. More in their illustrated dig diary
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