Albert C. Spaulding reports on the 1949 excavations on the island of Agattu, at the western end of the Aleutian Islands. Spaulding and his team identified the remains of two villages on Agattu, within which they opened four excavation units. They found numerous burials and hundreds of artifacts, including stone tools, bone ornaments and tools, and animal bone. The site is dated to about 615 BC.

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