Bear bones have been found on two Alaskan islands, posing quite a mystery to archaeologists.
Scientists may have had a breakthrough that will help solve a decades-old mystery involving ancient bear bones discovered in the Aleutian Islands, in Alaska.Brown and polar bear bones dating back thousands of years were discovered on Alaska's Unalaska and Amaknak islands in the early 2000s—But bears have never lived on those islands.
Whether it's a story that you heard around the campfire as a kid and you barely remember it ... I still care. I still want to hear that.'Unangax̂ elders told the two researchers that they were also unsure as to how the bones got there.One theory is that thousands of years ago people brought bear meat to the islands from Unimak—a neighboring island that did have its own population of the animals.
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