Along the northern shore of the remote Siberian isle of Yttygran , inwards the Bering Sea , is an surface area known every bit the “Whale Bone Alley”. Forty years agone , Soviet archaeologists hither discovered dozens of bowhead whale bones , together with skulls carefully arranged inwards the Earth stretching for 550 meters together with running parallel to the shore. The rib bones are either stuck into the Earth or propped upward yesteryear rocks inwards a double job to form out a form of alley. Down the pump of the alley were huge skulls together with foursquare pits 1 time idea to get got contained tons of meat.
Archaeologists believe that the Whale Bone Alley was built every bit a shrine together with sacred coming together house yesteryear the Eskimos inwards the 14th century. At that fourth dimension at that topographic point was a temporary H2O ice historic menstruation , that resulted inwards prolonged wintertime together with nutrient shortages which could get got led to conflicts betwixt Inuit tribes. Whale Bone Alley may get got been the neutral house where they could come upward together to hash out their problems , accept purpose inwards sacrificial offerings together with shop their meat inwards the foursquare pits that 1 time existed betwixt the os walls.
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However , archeologists may hold upward reading likewise much into the Whale Bone Alley. The local Yupik people tell that the site was nada to a greater extent than than a house where whale hunters gathered together with collectively butchered their catches , together with thence stored whale meat inwards pits. This elementary theory is supported yesteryear the fact that the Yupik mention for Yttygran is Sikliuk , which comes from the give-and-take Siklyugak , which way "meat pit" inwards Yupik.
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Sources: Siberian Times / Wikipedia