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Birnirk culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (129 words)
	The Birnirk culture is an prehistoric Inuit civilization of the north coast of Alaska, dating from 500 to 900 CE and disappearing around 1000 CE.
	It succeeded the Punuk and Old Bering Sea/Okvik cultures and is distingushed from those cultures due to different art and harpoon styles.
	A burial mound of the Birnirk culture was discovered in the town of Wales; 16 more have been found in Barrow at the "Birnirk site," which is now a National Historic Landmark.

Category:Archaeological cultures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (103 words)
	An archaeological culture is a pattern of similar artefacts and features found within a specific area over a limited period of time.
	As the archaeological cultures refer only to material items, sometimes even the purpose of which is uncertain, the word "culture" can be misleading.
	This category currently also includes archaeological industries which are similar to archaeological cultures but are limited only to artefact types.

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