611th - References

Site Name Keywords
Village of Kaktovik • Mine Site E

Site Type Keywords
Dry Creek

Other Keywords
United States Air Force • 11th Air Force • 611th Civil Engineer Squadron • 611th • Pacific Air Forces • 611th Air Support Group • Management • Archaeological Survey • National Park Service • Historic Context

Culture Keywords
PaleoIndian • Clovis • Archaic • Ipiutak • Inupiat • Koniag • Punuk • Birnirk • Ocean Bay Tradition • Kachemak

Investigation Types
Records Search / Inventory Checking • Historic Background Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Site Evaluation / Testing • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Remote Sensing • Heritage Management • Archaeological Overview

Material Types
Chipped Stone • Fauna • Burin • Ceramic • Dating Sample • Fire Cracked Rock • Macrobotanical • Projectile Point • Projectile points • Hammerstone

Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric • Historic • Late Holocene • Pleistocene • World War II • Cold War Era • Middle Holocene • Early Holocene • Late Aleutain • Late Anangula

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Alaska (State / Territory) • Canada (Country) • Yukon Territory (State / Territory) • Bermuda (Country) • Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre (Country) • Cook Inlet • Beaufort Sea • Old Bering Sea

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-12 of 12)

Alaska Implementation Guidelines for Federal On-Scene Coordinators for the Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response Under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text T.J. Barrett. Carl Lautenberger. Pamela Bergmann. Dennis E. Bschor. Judith E. Bittner. James W. LaBelle.
The Alaska Implementation Guidelines complement the 1997 Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties during Emergency Response under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (Programmatic Agreement) by providing Alaska-specific information to Federal On-Scene Coordinators (OCS) to assist in planning for, and responding to, oil spills and hazardous substance releases in Alaska. In addition, the Alaska Implementation Guidelines ensure consistent...
Alaskan Communications Region Milestones (1971)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Elsie M. Salley.
A historical chronology of Alaska's communication systems from 1947-1971
The Coldest Front: Cold War Military Properties in Alaska Revised and Expanded (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Siedler. Judith E. Bittner. Leighton M. Quarles. Center for the Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML).
The Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer received a grant from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Legacy program to write a historic overview of the state’s Cold War properties. The study is to assist DoD property managers with managing the numerous Cold War properties under their responsibility. This study shows that individual Cold War properties are interrelated parts of a larger unit. They often had major impacts on local areas.
Cultural Resources Reconnaissance for the Oooguruk Development Project, North Slope, Alaska, for the Year 2005 (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard E. Reanier.
This report presents the results of a cultural resources reconnaissance survey for the Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska, Inc. (Pioneer) for the proposed Oooguruk Development Project. This development project would include an offshore drill site, a flowline leading to onshore facilities, and ice road routes and access to water sources to support construction activities. This development project is located on the Arctic Coastal plain and adjacent Beaufort Sea immediately east of the Colville River...
The Distant Early Warning (Dew) Line: A Bibliography and Documentary Resource List (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Matthew J. Farish. Jennifer Arthur-Lackenbaur.
The Distant Early Warning Line was a string of continental defense radars, ultimately stretching from Alaska to Greenland. This research compendium provides a list of relevant sources on the DEW Line and Cold War continental defense. It focuses on primary sources available in Canada, and a systematic survey of published sources from Canada and the United States.
Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Stuart J. Fiedel. David R. Yesner. Marcel Kornfeld. Michael B. Collins. Steven R. Kuehn. Richard J. Dent. Kandace D. Hollenbach. Lucinda McWeeney.
This volume is a collection of chapters which presents data on Paleoindian subsistence from excavated faunal remains and preserved floral remains.
New Evidence for the Timing of Arctic Small Tool Tradition Coastal Settlement in Northwest Alaska (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Tremayne.
This paper presents the results of a survey of the oldest beach ridges located on Cape Espenberg in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska. The goals were to locate and test Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt) sites to develop a coastal settlement chronology and to establish whether marine resources were exploited. At the outset of this project four ASTt sites were known at Cape Espenberg, two with associated radiocarbon dates. Upon completion, ten new ASTt sites with eleven radiocarbon...
North Slope Borough Commission on History and Culture, Kaktovik, Alaska An Overview of Relocations (1977)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon M. Nelson. Ernie Frankson. Ronald Brower. Maldo Bodfish. Amos Morry. Nanny Woods. Warren Neakok.
This study attempts to assess the past and present relationships between the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, and the Northern Eskimo village of Kaktovik, Alaska. Specifically, it focuses on the question of Arctic military land withdrawals: how these withdrawals were established, which priorities were involved and what their impact has been upon this village in terms of community development and planning.
An Overview of Alaskan's Prehistoric Cultures (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Gillispie.
This report provides an overview which adopts a basic approach that describes the broadest outlines of Alaska’s prehistoric culture history as seen against the backdrop of these environmental changes and geographic divides. Results of the many more advanced analyses of prehistoric behavior are omitted for the sake of simplicity, as are the details of the many scholarly debates important in the archaeological literature.
Preservation Briefs #36 - Protecting Cultural Landscapes: Planning, Treatment and Management of Historic Landscapes (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles A. Birnbaum.
Preservation Recommendations, treatment, and management of cultural and historic landscapes from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
"This is the Most Important Part" Commemorating the Industrial Heritage of the Cold War Bar-1 Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Auxiliary Radar Station, Komakuk Beach, Yukon Territory, Canada (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Neufeld.
An archaeological study of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line performed by researchers from the Yukon and Western Arctic Parks, Canada. The DEW Line operated in arctic Canada for forty years from experimental beginnings in 1953 to a final shutdown in 1993. The DEW Line was an important technological achievement constructing and maintaining highly complex radio and radar equipment in a difficult and challenging environment.
Utah WWII Stories (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rick Randle. William L . Taylor. Eccles Broadcast Center, UT.
An oral history narrative from an interview with World War II veteran, William (Bill) L. Taylor., conducted by Rick Randle at Eccles Broadcast Center.