17 Nov 2011
1500-Year-Old Bronze Buckle Fragment Found in 1000-Year-Old Alaska Eskimo House
Alaska, Archaeology, East Asia, Eskimo, Technology
The fragment of leather on the broken bronze buckle was carbon-dated to 600 A.D.
A University of Colorado Bouilder archeology team excavating a 1000-year-old Inupiat Eskimo house at Cape Espenberg on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula found a partial bronze artifact resembling a buckle, which is apparently even older.
Bronze-casting is a technology not known ever to have existed in any New World culture, so the artifact was presumably made in Asia and reached Alaska by some unknown early system of trade.
Some News Agency report.
University of Colorado press release.
Hat tip to Reid Farmer.
