Eareckson - Archaeology

Part of: Eareckson Air Station

Site Name Keywords
Eareckson Air Station • Building 613 • Building 615 • Oliktok Point Long Range Radar Site LRRS • Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory

Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature • Midden • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Water-Related • Shipwreck • Shore-edge Site

Other Keywords
United States Air Force • 11th Air Force • 611th Civil Engineer Squadron • 611th • Pacific Air Forces • Radiocarbon • 611th Air Support Group • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services • Shell

Culture Keywords
Aleutian • Unangan

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Collections Research • Site Evaluation / Testing • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Environment Research • Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Systematic Survey • Ethnohistoric Research • Historic Background Research

Material Types
Dating Sample • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Shell • Soil • Human Remains • Chert-like Flattened Flake

Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric • Historic

Geographic Keywords
Alaska (State / Territory) • Shemya Island • North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • Aleutians West Census Area (County) • Asia (Continent) • Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory)

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  • Documents (6)
  • ATU-00239 By Diane K. Hanson (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and Karlene Leeper (U.S. Air Force) January 2003 (2003)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Diane K. Hanson. Karlene Leeper.

    During 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. This report summarizes the study conducted for site ATU-00239.

  • Grain Size Analysis of Archaeological Soil Samples from Shemya Island (2006)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Jason Bressler.

    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.

  • Historical Evaluation of Two Shipwrecks at Eareckson Air Station, Shemya Island, Alaska (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Jason S. Rogers. Roberta Gordaoff. Burr Neely.

    Northern Land Use Research Alaska, LLC (NLURA) was contracted by New South Associates, Inc. (NSA) to complete National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility evaluations for two vessels beached at Eareckson Air Station, Shemya Island, Alaska, on behalf of the United States Air Force, 611th Civil Engineer Squadron (USAF 611 CES). The need for evaluations was based on recommendations in the 2010 Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan (ICRMP) for Eareckson Air Station. The vessels...

  • Radiocarbon Dating Results for Sample UNITAL2, UNITBL4, UNITEL2, UNITHL2, UNITHL2A, UNITHL2B, UNITHL3 (2005)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Darden Hood.

    Correspondence from the Director of the Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Miami Florida to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services regarding the radiocarbon dating results for samples UNITAL2, UNITBL4, UNITEL2, UNITHL2, UNITHL2A, UNITHL2B, UNITHL3.

  • Radiocarbon Dating Results for Samples 738304, 738317 (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Darden Hood.

    Correspondence from the Director of the Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Miami Florida to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services regarding the radiocarbon dating results for samples 738304, 738317.

  • Shemya Island and the Question of Inland Sites (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Debra Corbett.

    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...