<< Text Pages >> Snake River Sandspit Pithouses - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in Alaska
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Multi-periodSite Name: Snake River Sandspit PithousesCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 186.94 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Alaska Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Nome, AK
Latitude: 64.500250N Longitude: 165.428638W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Alaska.
Pre-Contact Alaskan village. Surveys conducted prior to port upgrades found pre-contact pit houses. The finds dating to 1700s, including rare Late Thule pottery and a tool cache, have been curated and preserved.
Photos from the 1800's show a native village on the Sand Spit at Nome. There has been argument about when Inupiat Eskimo settlement took place; were the people attracted to the "modern" town and its opportunities, or had they always been living at the mouth of the Snake River? Recent find show that the settlement had existed prior to contact from the outside world.
Note: See attached article for descriptions of the finds and community involvment.
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