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Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus.

The new discoveries, combined with other finds made over the past 100 years, suggest trade items and ideas were reaching Alaska from East Asian civilizations well before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean Sea in 1492 archaeologists said.

"We're seeing the interactions, indirect as they are, with these so-called 'high civilizations' of China, Korea or Yakutia," a region in Russia, Mason said.

The Rising Whale discoveries include two bronze artifacts, one of which may have originally been used as a buckle or fastener. It has a piece of leather on it thatradiocarbondates to around A.D. 600 (more tests will take place in the future). The other bronze artifact may have been used as a whistle.

Bronze-working had not been developed at this time in Alaska, so archaeologists think the artifacts would have been manufactured in China, Korea or Yakutia, and made their way to Alaska through trade routes.

Also inside that house, researchers found the remains of obsidian artifacts, which have a chemical signature that indicates the obsidian is from the Anadyr River valley in Russia.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015...article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork


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Tobacco was finding its way to the west coast from the early American colonies via Europe and Russia long before 'white people' ever came on the scene (pre-mid-1700s).


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Even back 1400 years ago China had a strangle-hold on trinkets. wink



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Originally Posted by Klikitarik
Tobacco was finding its way to the west coast from the early American colonies via Europe and Russia long before 'white people' ever came on the scene (pre-mid-1700s).

The bronze items are 1100 years older though.


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Interesting article. Thanks ironbender, I printed it out so my daughter could show her class tomorrow along with some Bowhead Baleen.


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I'm really not surprised. I think there's a lot that was happening, up and down the west coast, a long, long time ago...

Very cool. Thanks for posting the link.

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All kinds of bronze artifacts were made here in Alaska for export. They were so popular only a couple are known to exist. They sold out quickly.

Thats just how it was before no bid contracts came along. wink


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Years ago I read that Chinese pottery chards, several thousand years old, had been found at some West Coast NA sites. Might explain some of the Chinee looks of some Natives down that way? Nothing trades like sperm!


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Originally Posted by las
Nothing trades like sperm!


laugh

(Which makes it all the more surprising that there was recent confirmation of an early people in Alaska whose DNA apparently didn't mix with more recent 'early people'.)

That people - mono-rulers/systems of various models- have ruined historical records of human activity - as did the Chinese- is really disappointing to say the least. Their navy was apparently quite impressive at one time and probably spread 'stuff' far and wide.


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So, las didn't mean oil for lamps?


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Ther are pre-Columbian Japanese artifacts in museums in Lima, Peru, but no one seems to care.


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It's only a few miles across the Bering Strait. Is it any surprise that people traded across it?

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Originally Posted by toltecgriz
Ther are pre-Columbian Japanese artifacts in museums in Lima, Peru, but no one seems to care.


Who cares?

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Srsly, interesting stuff way before Colombo arrived.


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Originally Posted by postoak
It's only a few miles across the Bering Strait. Is it any surprise that people traded across it?


Distance can a treacherous deception.


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Some time look up "palraiyuk", the Eskimo dragon.


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Originally Posted by ironbender
So, las didn't mean oil for lamps?


Sailors have been known to poke things other than whales..... smile


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