Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Cultural Resource Compendium. Social and Economic Studies Program Technical Report Number 119

摘要

The study presents the results of field research and evaluation of published and unpublished data, a paleoenvironmental history of Alaska's Continental Shelves for the late Wisconsin and early Holocene marine transgression. Major factors considered include: (1) climatic history; (2) rate of sea-level rise; (3) possible stillstands; (4) extent of glaciation; (5) marine circulation patterns; (6) productivity and distribution of faunal resource; (7) terrestrial ecology; (8) transgressive and post-transgressive physical perturbation of the continental shelf; and (9) the potential for site survival. Through integration of these, albeit scant, data a paleoecological history was developed for the last marine transgression and the potential for prehistorical archeological site occurrence on Alaska's Outer Continental Shelves is assessed. The study area encompasses all of the U.S. portions of the continental shelves of the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas, and that of the North Pacific from Umiak Island in the Aleutians to Cape Suckling eat of Prince William Sound.