There’s new evidence that metal goods from central Asia made their way to Alaska long before contact with Europeans.
That’s according to a study published this month in the Journal of Archeological Science, but there’s still a lot unknown about one artifact in particular.
“The buckle is about three centimeters in length and maybe two to three centimeters wide,” explained Kory Cooper, an archaeologist at Purdue University and one of the authors of the study. He’s been working for the past few years with Owen Mason, who was there when the buckle was discovered.
“Near the end of the season, as it always is, one of our excavators came across
