| Alaska Regional Office | U.S. Department of the Interior | |
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| Cultural Resources Team | National Park Service |
| National
Historic Landmarks in Alaska |
Wales
Site, Wales |
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Wales, Alaska |
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| National
Register Number: 66000161 Resource Type: District Property Type: Domestic - Village Site Designated: December 29, 1962 |
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| Wales has been the location of a whaling and seal-hunting village for the last 1,500 years. The excavations at the Wales sites provided the first evidence of successive stages of prehistoric Eskimo culture in northern Alaska. The Landmark, designated in 1962, is composed of three prehistoric sites containing material that spans the period from the Birnirk culture (500 to 900 AD) to the present. The first discovery of the Thule culture in Alaska, which chronologically follows Birnirk, was made at the Kurigatavik site in Wales. | |||||||||
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