Stock Photo - Whalebone Alley, female tourist standing between bow head whale rib bones, Itygran Island Bering Sea Russia, Asia MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones __ jaws and ribs __ running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen_covered rocks The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men´s secret society or feasting site