Archeology of Alaska Glaciers and Snowfields

一项跨学科的试点研究将开发一个地理信息系统（GIS）模型，通过分层人种学，历史，生物和地质数据，以确定具有高保护和发现潜力的地区的重要考古发现：阿拉斯加的兰格尔-圣埃利亚斯公园和保护区的冰冻地区。兰格尔-圣伊莱亚斯公园和保护区（英语：Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve）包含消退的冰川，历史上早期的人们经常使用这些冰川进行运输和狩猎。考古调查将对利用地理信息系统确定的地点进行实地测试，为完善模型提供数据，并获得必要的信息，以便今后更全面地利用卫星图像来确定最有可能含有考古遗迹的冰原的独特视觉和红外特征。

OPP-0097753An interdisciplinary pilot study will develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) model by layering ethnographic, historic, biological, and geologic data to identify significant archaeological finds in areas holding high potential for preservation and discovery: frozen areas in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve. The Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve contains receding glaciers that historically were used on a regular basis by early people for transportation and hunting. The archaeological survey will field-test locales identified using GIS, provide data to refine the model, and obtain information essential for future, more comprehensive use of satellite imagery to identify distinctive visual and infrared signatures of ice fields most likely to contain archaeological remains.