Norton culture

anthropology

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cultures of the American Arctic

  • Arctic Ocean
    In Arctic: History of settlement

    …replaced by that of the Norton culture in approximately 500 bce. These people made pottery similar to that found in contemporary Siberia, and their substantial villages of semisubterranean houses appeared along the coast from the Bering Sea to the Beaufort Sea, near the present northern border of Alaska with Canada.…

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