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Adams is a good patrician name in Boston. But John Quincy Adams was rediscovered last summer at the northernmost tip of U.S. territory--Point Barrow, Alaska...
Five local archaeologists, under the direction of W. K. Cartor, a graduate student here, flew to Barrow in order to continue a search begun in 1951 to determine when the Eskimos first entered the territory. Accompanying Carter were Theodore L. Stoddard, Jr., teaching fellow in Anthropology, William R. Bullard, Jr., now in Yukatan, William L. Kaschube, graduate student in geology at the University of Indiana, and Mrs. Carter, who served as a laboratory technician...
...travelers. The expenses, however, were paid by the Office of Naval Research. Carter said the Navy's interest in the field lay in "finding out how the Eskimos lived without support from the outside world in this unproductive area, in case the Navy has to operate from Barrow...
After flying to Barrow, where they landed in a military airport, Carter and his crew set up headquarters in quonset huts and proceeded to recruit helpers from the Eskimos...
...real significance of the Barrow expedition lies in the finds which the Peabody Museum group made. As a result of the expeditions the last two summers and the one to be taken this summer, the first systematic report of the ancient village site will be prepared. Carter said that the report will take two years to complete. Although the ancient Eskimo village sites at Point Barrow have been known to scholars since 1912, no good report of them has been made thus far. The present project has revealed discoveries which show a definite culture sequence in the area...