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<< Text Pages >> Amaknak Bridge - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in Alaska

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 11 August 2007  Page Views: 9597

DigsSite Name: Amaknak Bridge
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 337.736 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Alaska Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Unalaska, AK
Latitude: 53.873583N  Longitude: 166.5444W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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Ancient Settlement in Aleutians West County, Alaska. Stone walled pithouses, middens, and artefact finds dating to 1000 BCE. The area is unfortunately in the path of bridge improvements and some parts of this site are planned for salvage digs.

The location given is approximate, but within 200 yards.

Note: See attached articles about sub-floor heating system similar to Korean ondol and other finds found at this site.
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3000 year old mask found in Aleutians by bat400 on Saturday, 11 August 2007
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Submitted by coldrum --- Finds from this summer's dig at the Unalaska Island bridge site.

A whalebone mask discovered at an Alaskan archaeological site was probably broken during an Aleut funeral 3,000 years ago, scientists said.

Mike Yarborough, who heads the dig on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain, told The Anchorage Daily News the mask is about 2,000 years older than any other to have been found. Only the upper half of the mask was found and it had old cracks in it.

The dig, originally scheduled to last only a month, has been extended because the site has proved to be much richer than anyone expected.

The village was inhabited at a time when the climate in the Aleutians was much colder and the islands were surrounded by ice year-round. The inhabitants lived in stone houses with under-floor air spaces for heating.

The mask resembles a 1,000-year-old one found on the Alaskan peninsula. Denise Rankin, vice president of the tribal corporation on Unalaska, said the eyes and other features are also familiar to her.


For more, see This" target="_blank" target="_new">http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070729-01364200-bc-us-mask.xml">This link.
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Ancient home heating system in 3000 yo Alaskan settlement. by bat400 on Thursday, 28 June 2007
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Sumitted by coldrum --- What are believed to be the world's oldest underfloor stone-lined-channel heating systems have been discovered in Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the U.S. The heating systems are remarkably similar to ondol, the traditional Korean indoor heating system. The word ondol, along with the word kimchi, is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. The ondol heating system is widely recognized as Korean cultural property.

According to "Archaeology", a bi-monthly magazine from the American Archaeological Society, the remains of houses equipped with ondol-like heating systems were found at the Amaknak Bridge excavation site in Unalaska, Alaska.

The leader of the excavation, archaeologist Richard Knecht from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo on Monday that the team began the dig in 2003. Radiocarbon dating shows the remains are about 3,000 years old.

Until now the oldest known ondol heating systems were built 2,500 years ago by the Korean people of North Okjeo in what is now Russia's Maritime Province. The Alaskan ondol are about 500 years older, and are the first ondol discovered outside the Eurasian continent.

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