| Alaska Regional Office | U.S. Department of the Interior | |
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| Cultural Resources Team | National Park Service |
| National
Historic Landmarks in Alaska |
Yukon
Island Site, Yukon Island |
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Kenai Peninsula, Alaska |
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| National
Register Number: 66000955 Resource Type: Site Property Type: Domestic - Village Site Designated: December 29, 1962 |
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| First excavated in the 1930s, the Yukon Island main site in Kachemak Bay was the first to produce artifacts attributable to the Kachemak tradition of Pacific Eskimo marine mammal hunters. The Kachemak people occupied an area extending from Kodiak Island to Cook Inlet for about two millennia, from 1500 BC to sometime around AD 500. Recent excavations at the site have turned up evidence of an even earlier cultural tradition, Ocean Bay, previously known primarily from sites in the Kodiak Archipelago, dated at ca. 2,000 to 4,000 BC. | |||||||||
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