U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Other Keyword)
1-3 (3 Records)
Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.
Grain Size Analysis of Archaeological Soil Samples from Shemya Island (2006)
This report presents the results of a sieve analyses of 43 soil samples collected from archeological and borrow sources on Shemya Island, and interpret the results. The objective was to determine if grain size analysis can discriminate between disturbed and in situ archeological soils, and whether samples of midden soils display distinctive grain size distributions.
Shemya Island and the Question of Inland Sites (2008)
During the July 2002 excavation of sewer lines at Eareckson Air Station, two prehistoric midden deposits containing shell, bone, whalebone, stone and bone artifacts, and human remains were exposed. The Air Force Remote Sites archaeologist, Karlene Leeper, halted the work until archaeologists could determine whether the remains represented an in situ cultural deposit, or whether midden was transported as fill from elsewhere. Joined by Diane Hanson of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Leeper...