Excavatinq St. Matthew, Alaska's most remote island.

摘要

One of the quietest places in Alaska was temporarily home to a few hardy people when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. An archaeologist has fleshed out what life might have been like during a winter on St. Matthew Island in the 1600s.In some ways, St. Matthew, more than 200 miles from the nearest Alaska settlement (the village of Mekoryuk), is a great place to live: lush with plant life (some of it edible); miles of coastline offering access to seabirds, their eggs, walrus, seals, and fish; ample fresh water in lakes and streams.