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...three weeks, prowling the spongy tundra between the Sadlerochit and Shubelik mountains, the prospectors found nothing but Eskimo and pre-Eskimo artifacts, 2,000 to 5,000 years old. Then, just two days before a plane was due to take them home, Solecki and Colleague Bert Salwen decided to prospect a knoll that looked like just the kind of place a caribou hunter might stand, with a sweeping view of the mountain valley. They were right. Half-hidden in a litter of rocks, they found 25 "choppers"-crudely edged stones with which the first visitors from Asia skinned their catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Camping 10,000 Years Ago | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

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