Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . Fig. 51.—A deep Fig. 52.—A nest of human skulls and bones. 52 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION of the point, and then apparently abandoned the site. This was fol-lowed by the deposition of 4 to 7 inches more of the loess, and thenthe location became reinhabited, never again to be vacated or to re-ceive any further loess deposit. The people who first and for a longtime thereafter occupied the place were neither true Eskimo nor Aleut,but a type whose nearest relatives appear to occur in the older partsof the mounds on Frazer Rive
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . Fig. 51.—A deep Fig. 52.—A nest of human skulls and bones. 52 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION of the point, and then apparently abandoned the site. This was fol-lowed by the deposition of 4 to 7 inches more of the loess, and thenthe location became reinhabited, never again to be vacated or to re-ceive any further loess deposit. The people who first and for a longtime thereafter occupied the place were neither true Eskimo nor Aleut,but a type whose nearest relatives appear to occur in the older partsof the mounds on Frazer River. These people occupied the site forcenturies, until apparently about 400 years ago, when they weresuddenly and completely—or nearly so—displaced l)y the Aleuts
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