| Alaska Regional Office | U.S. Department of the Interior | |
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| Cultural Resources Team | National Park Service |
| National
Historic Landmarks in Alaska |
Anangula
Site, Ananiuliak Island, Aleutians |
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Nikolski, Alaska |
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| National
Register Number: 78000512 Resource Type: Site Property Type: Domestic - Village site Designated: June 2, 1978 |
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| This island site was of paramount importance in the peopling of North America and represents the earliest known occupation in the Aleutians. Archeologists have found evidence of ancient stone core and blade tools which were buried deep beneath many layers of volcanic ash. Radiocarbon tests in 1975 dated human occupation as having occurred here about 8,400 years earlier. Anangula Site is the remains of a village occupied by Eskimo-Aleuts whose cultural remains include six semi-subterranean, rectangular-to-oval houses depressions and several intact workshops outside the houses. | |||||||||
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