No comments BARROW, ALASKA– The Point Barrow spit looks like a sea of gravel with few clues on the surface to tell us where the burials may be.
So how do we know where to dig?
One way is by digging “shovel test pits” (STPs), and that’s just what we did on Day 2 in the field.
Anne Jensen lives and works in Barrow, Alaska. Anne’s field studies have taken her throughout much of Alaska for the past 25 years. Her research in human adaptation in the Arctic includes a long-term project at the prehistoric village site of Nuvuk, where the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas come together. Historic Nuvuk is also the site of a 1,000-year-old burial ground. Hundreds of gravesites are endangered there by erosion, which sometimes removes 50 feet of coastal frontage in a single storm.
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