The Denbigh people were
hunters competent in the boreal forest, on the arctic plains,
and on the sea. Their great talent was in making microblades.
The blades are similar to blades foud at Neolithic sites in the
forests of Siberia and on the Mongolian steppes, but they are
finer. Denbigh burin spalls, used by flintworkers for grooving
and splitting antler and ivory, are sometimes fine as spruce
needles, and today bear fossil witness to a great and meticulous
skill that was lost to succeeding cultures. The oval foundations
of Denbigh houses, still just under the moss at Cape Krusenstern
(for arctic moss grows slowly) are much like the foundations
of the low skin huts still erected by caribou hunters on Brooks
Range passes.
