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The Yup’ik community was spared from much of the widespread devastation remnants of Typhoon Halong brought to Alaska earlier this month, but it experienced a different type of loss.

The storm surge consumed dozens of feet of shoreline near the edge of the Bering Sea, a culturally significant archaeological site, washing away possibly thousands of unearthed artifacts.

About 1,000 pieces

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