Alaska, Aleutian Islands (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the second half of the 18th century Russian colonization swiped across the Aleutian Chain and into continental Alaska, destroying and distorting many Indigenous traditions, including the boat building of the Unangax people of the Aleutian Islands. While Unangax kayaks are well known from ethnographic examples, their undecked...
The Wreck and the Williwaw: Archival Identification of a World War II Shipwreck in the Aleutian Islands (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The history of World War II is replete with stories of famous maritime losses. Arizona, Royal Oak, Bismarck, Yamato – these names are etched into collective memory. But the losses of non-naval vessels are often less well known. This is especially true in distant theaters like the Aleutian Islands, which stretch for...