Geophysical investigation of the Slaven’s Roadhouse Site, Yukon-Charley National Preserve, Alaska

Summary

The Slaven’s Roadhouse Site in the Yukon-Charley National Preserve, Alaska, is a multi-component archaeological site with historic age buildings and a prehistoric record dating to at least 4,000 B.P. The site is located on a deep, stratified river terrace along the Yukon River. Work conducted in 2008 revealed a mid-Holocene age cultural component at a depth of 0.5 m, however, the stratified deposits extend as deep as 6 m and have good potential to contain significant archaeological deposits dating to as early as 14,000 B.P. Locating cultural deposits at such depths posed a challenge for conventional invasive testing, which we attempted to surmount with the use of a battery of geophysical methods. The 2014 investigation included ground-penetrating radar, electromagnetic induction methods at two transmitter-receiver offsets, magnetic gradiometry, and DC resistivity. Preliminary results, presented here, revealed a number of potential archaeological features, some of which are deeper than 4 m.

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