National Geographic History - USA (2022-03 & 2022-04)

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ERIKA LARSEN/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION 80 MARCH/APRIL 2022 T he archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coas ...

RACE AGAINST TIME Photographed at Nunalleq in Alaska, archaeologists work quickly and carefully to excavate sites that are threa ...

Around a.d. 1400 communities moved up the coastal rivers, including the Yukon, to form set- tlements farther inland. Rather than ...

LIFE AT SEA Photographed in the mid-20th century, a resident of Nunivak Island (which lies about 100 miles west of the present-d ...

Archaeologists unearthed the remains of someone, likely a woman, who appears to have succumbed to smoke inhalation as she tried ...

Knecht believes the attacks were the result of climate change—a 550-year chilling of the plan- et now known as the Little Ice Ag ...

86 MARCH/APRIL 2022 FISHERMEN’S FRIENDS Resembling their modern equivalents used to fish today, ivory fishing lures (above) were ...

RECONNECTING WITH THE PAST AT FIRST, Qanirtuuq chairperson Grace Hill opposed the excavation at Nunalleq because Yup’ik traditio ...

88 MARCH/APRIL 2022 wave damage now that the thawing permafrost is making the land sink. “One good winter storm and we could los ...

WASHING AWAY Tribal elder Warren Jones stands where erosion is eating away at Yup’ik lands in southwest Alaska. Permafrost and s ...

B S B S ea THE EFFECTS of global climate change are threatening hundreds of sites that hold clues to Alaska’s past and its peopl ...

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DISCOVERIES H oward Carter’s sensational 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s treasure-filled tomb sparked a fascina- tion with ...

One limestone block was loosened and removed in order to see in. A large chamber is visible ex- tending up a little to east and ...

Tutankhamun’s tomb had made Reisner realize the power of public relations. His decision to reseal the intact tomb (officially la ...

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DISCOVERIES damaged by water and in such poor condition that he feared it would crumble. The delicate work to retrieve the fragm ...

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