Alaska’s thaw threatens prehistoric sites once frozen in time
Archaeologist Rick Knecht shows the effect of erosion due to climate change at the excavation site where he is searching for Yupik Eskimo artefacts, near Quinhagak in Alaska. – AFP pic, May 4, 2019
THE first artefact – a wooden mask – was discovered in 2007 by a child who stumbled upon it while playing on the beach near his home in Quinhagak, a village in western Alaska that sits by the Bering Sea. Over the following months, hundreds of similar objects – baskets, finely carved harpoon shafts, lip plugs, wooden dolls, ivory tattoo needles – emerged from the earth as melting permafrost and erosion driven by climate change revealed a Yupik Eskimo settlement dating back to the 1600s.
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