Kiska: Alaska’s Underwater Battlefield
Author(s): Andrew Pietruszka; Eric Terrill; Mark Moline; Heidi Batchelor; Eric Gallimore; Bob Hess; Andy Nager; Matthew Breece; Eric White
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
In July 2018 members of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Delaware spent two weeks conducting an exploratory remote-sensing survey to locate and document WWII-era submerged archaeological sites in the waters off Kiska Island, Alaska, one of the last and most remote islands in the Aleutian chain. The often-forgotten Aleutian campaign was the sole WWII campaign fought on North American soil and Kiska Island is one of the few U.S. territories occupied by foreign forces in the last 200 years. This paper explores the historical context of the Aleutian Campaign, project methodology, and results with an emphasis on the use of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) in archaeological survey. The project was funded by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean Exploration and Research grant and Project Recover.
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Kiska: Alaska’s Underwater Battlefield. Andrew Pietruszka, Eric Terrill, Mark Moline, Heidi Batchelor, Eric Gallimore, Bob Hess, Andy Nager, Matthew Breece, Eric White. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457299)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
WWII
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 404