Word: solecki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heading a five-man team financed by the Arctic Institute of North America, Columbia's Ralph S. Solecki focused his search on a desolate coastal plain 300 miles east of Point Barrow. There, he reasoned, a narrow coastal strip protected by mountains suggested a natural corridor for early nomads. "Like modern campers," said Solecki, "they liked to set themselves up in well-drained spots sheltered from the wind...
...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...