Asset Overview
Fixed Harpoon, Hot Springs Village, Port Moller, Alaska CAT# 2-21.1.6 Likely Hot Springs 1A 2000-1600 CE
1960 Japanese excavations. Described in Workman (1966) Arctic Anthropology, 3(2):132-153, and Maschner (2004) AJA 2(1-2):100-116.
The Hot Springs site is a massive village on the shore of Port Moller, on the Alaska Peninsula side of the southern Bering Sea. It was excavated by several different teams over the last 100 years. The main occupations are from 2000 BCE-1000 BCE, and from 100 CE to 800 CE.
The Hot Springs artifacts are presented as a result of the research conducted under grants NSF 0137756, 1204020, 1139266, 1321411. H. Maschner, Principal Investigator. Original digitizing work done at the IVL at Id. St. Univ. Subsequent processing completed at Global Digital Heritage.