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The Qitchauvik site, on the shore of Golovin Lagoon. was the location of a men’s house, or qarigi, used between about A.D. 550 and 750. Qarigi are identified in the archeological record by their large size and by the low incidence, traditionally, of tools related to women’s activities such as sewing and cooking. The Golovin Field School excavated the site.
Grand Portage National Monument
Barley Men
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Bere is a barley that grows well in colder climates near large masses of water, its rapid growth lends itself perfectly to the long hours of sunlight and short growing season of Grand Portage summers.
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Read a summary and get the link to an article on methane changes in Beringia since the last Glacial Maximum, in: Fuchs, M., M. Jones, E. Gowan, S. Frolking, K. W. Walter Anthony, G. Grosse, B. Jones, L. Brosius, J. A. O’Donnell, and C. Treat. 2024. Potential methane flux from Beringian coastal wetlands during the last deglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 344: 108976.
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The south coast people living from the Aleutians to Prince William Sound, were skilled kayakers and sea hunters. Anangula Site is one of the areas associated with South Coast Sea Hunters.
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The Walrus Islands Archeological District is our earliest glimpse of a relationship between people and walrus in Alaska. It is one of the few remaining places that provide evidence of human occupation of the Bering Sea continental shelf 6,000 years ago, when sea levels were substantially lower than present.
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Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.
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During the second half of 2023, the U.S. National Park Service undertook many exciting international conservation projects. Following are summaries of notable cooperation between NPS staff and international counterparts between July and December 2023.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Nome Archaeology Camp: Using Place-based Education to Inspire the Next Generation of Stewards in the Bering Strait Region
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Nome Archaeology Camp engages high school students from across Alaska in learning about the cultural heritage of the Bering Strait—past and present. They practice archaeological survey techniques, learn from elders and local experts, work with museum collections, and more. Alaska Park Science 20(2), 2021
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The study of ceramic technology expands what we know about the extent of social networks over time. This work is exploring the mobility of social networks across Beringia and how people adapted to changing environmental and social circumstances. Alaska Park Science 20(2), 2021
Shared Beringian Heritage Program
Jim Stimpfle and the Melting of the “Ice Curtain”
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Hear how Nome realtor, Jim Stimpfle, helped to melt the "Ice Curtain" of the Cold War and open the border between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Wrangell St. Elias NPP to Bering Land Bridge NP: summer movements of Golden Eagle 1502. Satellite telemetry is expanding our understanding of Golden Ecology and revealing the stories of non-territorial Golden Eagles in Alaska during the breeding season.
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Observing Change in Alaska's National Parks contains oral history interviews with long-time residents of Skagway, Alaska talking about their observations of environmental change in and around Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, and with National Park Service employees and residents of Nome, Alaska discussing the changing environment in and around Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Loons without lakes
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Over a decade of loon population survey data combined with satellite imagery of lakes in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve dating back to the mid-1980s indicate remarkable changes in the nesting lakes of loons are underway. Lake drying in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and consequences for loons. How will loons cope with the widespread draining of lakes?
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
What we are learning from Nataeł Na’
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Read the abstract and link to a paper on the findings from an archaeological site that may increase understanding of human migration from the Bering Land Bridge: White, J. T., A. Henry, S. Kuehn, M. G. Loso, and J. T. Rasic. 2022. Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’. Quaternary International.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
The Russian-American Telegraph: A Failed Attempt To Connect The World
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The Russian-American telegraph expedition was an ambitious but doomed attempt to run a telegraph line along the coast and beneath the Bering Strait and ultimately connect the US with Europe.
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The weather station in Nome has been recording temperature and precipitation data for over a hundred years. It was a dry fall season with each month coming in below normal. Not much precipitation fell during the cold month of November. December brought extreme precipitation and rain-on-snow along the West Coast of Alaska and into Interior Alaska. Heavy snowfall, freezing rain, and rain brought record amounts of precipitation to many communities. Spring was warm and dry.
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Ancient hunter-gatherers of the Arctic and Subarctic regions were nomadic people that moved camp regularly with the seasons. Ethnographic data show Native Alaskan populations typically limited their residential moves within familiar territories; however, the archaeological record demonstrates there were times in prehistory when humans spread from their homelands to new areas, sometimes lands where humans had never lived before. This is the story of Beringian migration.
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This article explores how extensively humans interacted with the environment in the past. Archaeology and mapping technologies are used to discover how much past humans interfered in Alaska's ecosystems.
Shared Beringian Heritage Program
The Hope Race
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The story of the first Hope Race in 1991, which ran from Nome, Alaska, to Anadyr, Russia.
Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program
St. Paul Island: Creating a Community Park in the Middle of the Bering Sea
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Three-hundred miles west from Alaska’s mainland, the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island is honoring their connection to baseball by restoring the historic field that has actively been used for recreation and community gatherings since the 1880s. With assistance from the National Park Service, the community now has a master plan to begin developing the park.