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This INTAS-project made it possible to continue the excavation in the Western Hill of the Burial Ground, started already in 1961-1974, and conducted since 1987 by the Oriental State Museum in Moscow. There was and is always a close co-operation with the Group of Historical Ecology of the Severtsov Institute for Ecology and Evolution and the Institute of Anthropology of the Moscow State University. Member participants came from the Danish National Museum, the University of Tübingen, Germany, the University of Geneva and the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, and the Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeology Research abroad as well as the Völkerkunde Museum in Munich and also from the Canadian Museum of Civilisation in Hull outside from INTAS.
In the burial ground are now more than 300 burials of Early Whale Hunter cultures documented, covering a time span from 500 B.C. to 1000 A.D. In 1995 besides the rich inventories of carved walrus-ivory tools and art objects, new rituals could be observed : a burial in remains of the oldest boat known so far from Beringia and secondary dog-burials in an older empty grave. In 1995 the excavations in the Burial Ground were stopped. The specimens found were restored and conserved. After a new agreement 50 % of them will be given to the museums in Anadyr and Lawrentiya. A catalogue of the 119 burials found in the excavation of the Oriental Museum is under preparation for publication.
For the first time one of the house ruins have been started to be excavated. A rather later house in the multilevel site is well preserved and impressive by its large construction effort. In the house on the sleeping platform a human skeleton was found. An urgent salvage operation is needed to stop the erosion of the settlement layers by the sea.
The ecological studies could be continued in the settlement area and the vicinity of the site. The basic history of the ecosystem can now be reconstructed in its main features after more than five years of intensive research. A report on this work is ready for print.
The human remains were studied to document a unique population from the Beringian Arctic.
The expedition at the moment is the only one of its kind in all of Beringia and we are thankful to INTAS for helping us to intensify the work and start after all the excavation of the settlement. Even under the difficult conditions the work continued in 1996-1999, in Ekven settlement, and with a reduced field crew and restricted funds in the summer of 2000.
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