Walrus and whale hunters of the Bering Strait islands whose elaborate circle-and-dot ivory carving is among the finest art of the ancient Arctic.
Flowed into the later Punuk and Birnirk traditions that in turn produced the Thule Inuit; their village mounds on St. Lawrence Island still yield engraved harpoon heads.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Okvik & Old Bering Sea Culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 250 BC · 101.
Covers the Bering Strait maritime cultures and their elaborate ivory carving.
Sets Old Bering Sea / Okvik within the long Arctic cultural sequence (broad context).