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The Neversweat Prospect (MMK-092) is located on the right bank of Eldorado Creek, a tributary of Moose Creek. The site is a landscape of the Kantishna Historic Mining District (KHMD). The KHMD is within the boundaries of Denali National Park and Preserve, at the end of the 92 mile Park Road near Wonder Lake. The Neversweat Prospect is a 4.3 acre historic site and contains a small collection of historic buildings and structures, small scale features and landscape features associated with lode mining. The extant features consist of one building (cabin), and 15 structures (three collapsed adits, one partially collapsed adit, one partially collapsed outhouse, a historic road, a historic trail, six rock retaining walls)....
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This dissertation presents results from four recently discovered archeological sites in southcentral Alaska. The sites range from the Younger Dryas to middle Holocene in age and provide valuable contextual information for the human process of colonizing a region that was heavily glaciated during the LGM. The deglaciation and human colonization of southcentral Alaska is one of the most significant aspects of the settling phase in eastern Beringia not only for its potential to inform about the human response to post-glacial landscapes but also for what we can learn about subsequent migrations to the southern coast of Alaska. Understanding how early foraging societies spread throughout eastern Beringia, after its initial...
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New field mapping of surficial deposits near the Castner Glacier, Alaska has identified three distinct moraine complexes beyond the current glacier margin, denoting at least three separate intervals of glacial advance or stillstand. The timing of moraine stabilization and ice retreat was determined by cosmogenic super( 10)Be surface exposure dating for the two older moraines along with lichenometric measurements for all three moraines. Surface exposure ages indicate the timing of ice retreat after the late Wisconsin maximum at 14.7 c 0.7 ka (n = 4, k-years before present), and identify the intermediate moraine as corresponding to the Little Ice Age (LIA) at 1627 c 32 years AD (n = 2). Lichen measurements from the...
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The purpose of this study is to understand chipped stone technological behaviors at the Mead Site located in central Alaska. Lithics from each cultural occupation ranging in age from 11,460BP to 1420BP were analyzed and compared. Specific objectives include (1) characterization of variability in raw material and use for each cultural component, (2) description of lithic stages of reduction represented in each component, (3) description of the basic lithic industries represented, and (4) the identification and characterization of spatial organization and lithic behaviors. Results indicate (1) the tools and debris from Cultural Zone (CZ) 1b and CZ2 show preferential use of local materials, while the tools from CZ3b...
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Issue Title: Special issue: "Holocene paleoenvironmental records from Arctic lake sediment" Wetlands and lakes in the Tanana Valley, Alaska, have provided important resources for prehistoric humans who inhabited this region. We examine an ~11,200 cal yr BP record of environmental and paleolimnological changes from Quartz Lake in the middle Tanana Valley. Our data are also presented in the context of recent archaeological findings in the lake's general vicinity that have 18 associated AMS ^sup 14^C dates. We analyzed the stable-carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of total organic matter from the core, coupled with oxygen and carbon isotope analyses of Pisidiidae shells (fingernail clams), in addition to chironomid...
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The CLR for the Kennecott mill town is divided into two parts. Part I includes the Site History, Existing Conditions, and the Analysis and Evaluation of cultural landscape characteristics. Part II includes Treatment of the cultural landscape and includes recommendations and a five-year management plan. The CLR is an interdisciplinary document, compiled by historical landscape architects, archeologists, mining historians, historical architects, planners, and natural resource specialists. The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve serve initiated the project in the spring of 1997. In addition to park and regional staff in the Alaska office, project agreements with other NPS offices and contracts with Michigan...
map background search result map search result map Frederica de Laguna and the Study of Pre-Contact Pictographs from Coastal Sites in Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, Alaska A First Approximation of Holocene Inter-Assemblage Variability in Central Alaska The End of the Kachemak Tradition on the Kenai Peninsula, Southcentral Alaska The Role of Post-Glacial Lakes in the Pre-Contact Human History of Southwest Yukon Territory: A Late Drainage Hypothesis An ~11,200 year paleolimnological perspective for emerging archaeological findings at Quartz Lake, Alaska Gc/ms Analysis of Fatty Acids from Ancient Hearth Residues at the Swan Point Archaeological Site The Siruk Site, Alatna River, Alaska: a Koyukon Winter House Subarctic 'Prehistory' in the Anthropological Imagination Archaeological Investigations of Alpine Ice Patches in the Selwyn Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada Ice Patch Archaeology in Alaska: 2000 - 10 The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska People of the Lakes: Stories of our Van Tat Gwich'in Elders/ Googwandak Nakhwach'ando Van Tat Gwich'in A late glacial and holocene chronology of the Castner Glacier, Delta River Valley, Alaska Cultural landscape report : Kennecott Mill Town Kennecott Mill Town: Cultural Landscape Report, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska Neversweat Prospect: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Denali National Park, National Park Service Lithic analysis at the Mead Site, central Alaska Middle Holocene humans in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska Prehistoric colonization of southcentral Alaska: Human adaptations in a post glacial world Importance of traditional foods for the food security of two First Nations communities in the Yukon, Canada The Siruk Site, Alatna River, Alaska: a Koyukon Winter House An ~11,200 year paleolimnological perspective for emerging archaeological findings at Quartz Lake, Alaska People of the Lakes: Stories of our Van Tat Gwich'in Elders/ Googwandak Nakhwach'ando Van Tat Gwich'in A late glacial and holocene chronology of the Castner Glacier, Delta River Valley, Alaska Lithic analysis at the Mead Site, central Alaska The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska Middle Holocene humans in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska The Role of Post-Glacial Lakes in the Pre-Contact Human History of Southwest Yukon Territory: A Late Drainage Hypothesis The End of the Kachemak Tradition on the Kenai Peninsula, Southcentral Alaska Neversweat Prospect: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Denali National Park, National Park Service Gc/ms Analysis of Fatty Acids from Ancient Hearth Residues at the Swan Point Archaeological Site Cultural landscape report : Kennecott Mill Town Kennecott Mill Town: Cultural Landscape Report, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska Frederica de Laguna and the Study of Pre-Contact Pictographs from Coastal Sites in Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, Alaska Archaeological Investigations of Alpine Ice Patches in the Selwyn Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada Prehistoric colonization of southcentral Alaska: Human adaptations in a post glacial world Importance of traditional foods for the food security of two First Nations communities in the Yukon, Canada A First Approximation of Holocene Inter-Assemblage Variability in Central Alaska Subarctic 'Prehistory' in the Anthropological Imagination Ice Patch Archaeology in Alaska: 2000 - 10