article_snippet.sent: This is according to a series of bronze artefacts found  at the 'Rising Whale' site in Cape Espenberg, Alaska.
article_snippet.sent: Archaeologists discovered what Archaeologists believe to be a bronze and leather buckle and a bronze whistle, dating to around A.D. 600.
article_snippet.sent: The discovery was made after archaeologists found what archaeologists believe to be a bronze and leather buckle (right), dating to around A.D. 600 .
article_snippet.sent: Pictured are archaeologists working at the Rising Whale site at Cape Espenberg, Alaska. 
article_snippet.sent: As a result, the artefacts give the best and least ambiguous evidence to date that non-ferrous industrial smelted metals were arriving in Alaska via prehistoric trade across the Bering Strait.'
article_snippet.sent: The latest discovery of bronze artefacts backs up earlier evidence for trade between Alaska and other civilisations prior to 1492.
article_snippet.sent: began appearing in Alaska around 1,000 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Cape Espenberg, where the discovery was made, is a cape located on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, on the Chukchi Sea coast .
highlights_snippet.sent: Bronze buckle and whistle from AD 600 found in Cape Espenberg .
  