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anthropological survey in alaska 

 Pre-Russian Sites 



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As already told in the Narrative, a search for truly ancient sites 

 along the Yukon has proven largely negative. A more intense and 

 prolonged archeological survey, with exploratory trenches wherever 

 there is promise, may one day prove more fruitful. But, as pointed 



Figuee 7. — The Yukon from Bystraia to below Holy Cross 



out before, much can never be expected. Man could at no time 

 have occupied the Yukon Valley and watershed in large numbers. 

 He would not have found enough sustenance. Even with fair re- 

 sources he would hardly have tarried in these, inclement regions as 

 long as the ways toward the south were open. He never built here 

 of lasting materials and had little chance to develop or even keep up 



