The physical evidence tells us what people did.

It tells us something about how they lived and died.

It tells us almost nothing about what they felt.

The sixty-two individuals in Bering Sinkhole were each embedded in specific social worlds.

They had mothers and fathers, children and siblings, friends and enemies, status and obligations.

They had histories — specific things that happened to them, specific experiences that shaped who they were.

They had futures they imagined and hoped for, futures that ended when they died and were placed in the sinkhole.