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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ipiutak Site is a large archaeological site at Point Hope in northwest Alaska. It is the type site for the Ipiutak culture, which arose possibly as early as 100-200 BCE and collapsed around 800 CE. The Ipiutak culture occurred from south of the Bering Strait, across the Brooks Range and possibly as far north as Point Barrow. The Ipiutak site was discovered in 1939 by archaeologists Helge Larsen and Froelich Rainey, who completed a monograph on the site in 1948. The site consists of nearly 600 abandoned house depressions along four beach ridges that impart a linearity that was originally interpreted as purposeful design as roads or avenues. Many of the houses are too close to be contemporaneous and the range of several radiocarbon ages suggests a duration of 300-400 years to build all of the houses. Archaeologists have modeled the population history of the site to infer that only about 125-200 people lived at the site during any one generation and occupied 20 to 30 houses.

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