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Show Industry, Commerce, Art, Religion Flourished. NEW YORK. On a barren gravel spit 130 miles above the Arctic circle a highly developed and complex com-plex civilization came into being before be-fore the dawn of history on the ancient an-cient migration route from Asia to America. For a few thousand years it thrived. Then it declined and ultimately ulti-mately died, leaving behind a mystery as deep as that which once shrouded the pyramids. Relics of the ancient lost civilization, civili-zation, which once made Point Hope, Alaska a place of animation where industry, commerce, art and religion flourished, were discovered only two years ago. A full report on what is known about it became available when Dr. Harry L. Shapiro of the American Museum of Natural History released details of discoveries made on the site during the past summer. Much as Dr. Shapiro and his predecessors discovered about the Point Hope culture, more remains to be learned. Science does not yet know what race laid out the ancient city now referred to as "Ipiutak." It only knows that the Ipiutak civilization civi-lization was more highly developed than either ancient or modern Eskimo Es-kimo culture, that the inhabitants were deeply religious, highly artistic and skilled in the crafts of daily living. In 1939 and 1940 members of an American museum - University of Alaska expedition located the vast ruins of the prehistoric town. Dr. Shapiro extended their discoveries last summer. He found that Ipiutak which is the Eskimo name of a small spit of land near the site had five long avenues on which seme 600 dwellings, dwell-ings, since buried, housed about 3,000 persons. |
