Brooks River Archeological District

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Brooks River Archaeological District
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Brooks River Archeological District

Location	Address restricted^[2], along Brooks River, Katmai National Park and Preserve
Nearest city	King Salmon
NRHP reference No.	78000342^[1]
AHRS No.	XMK-051
Added to NRHP	February 14, 1978^[1]
Designated NHLD	April 19, 1993^[3]

Map of the Brooks River Archaeological District

The Brooks River Archaeological District encompasses a large complex of archaeological sites along the banks of the Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It includes at least twenty separate settlement sites with documented occupation dates from 2500 BCE to recent (post-contact) history. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.^[3] The site is partly occupied by the Brooks Camp, one of the major visitor areas of the park.

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The Brooks River is a relatively short river which connects Brooks Lake to Naknek Lake on the upper part of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve. The river is the site of a salmon run that attracts large numbers of bears, and has been used since the establishment of the park as a hunting, fishing, and sightseeing location. Brooks Camp is located on the north bank of the river, near Brooks Falls. Since the 1960s the area has been the subject of regular archaeological activity, often in regard to the management of the facilities at the camp. This research has regularly exposed evidence of human habitation in the area.^[4]

The geological history of the site provides remarkably well-demarcated periods of occupation, because regular volcanic activity in the region has deposited a number of (sometimes deep) ash layers in the area. The most recent of these eruptions was that of Novarupta in 1912, which was at least partly responsible for the creation of Katmai National Park. The eruption resulted in the destruction of a number of Native villages (including Savonoski), closer to the volcano, and the Brooks River area was one place they migrated to afterward.^[4]

Bedded between the deposits of at least ten separate major volcanic events dating back to 6500 BCE, are numerous occurrences of evidence of human habitation. The oldest sites found at Brooks River date to c. 3000 BCE. Finds include the remains of pit houses (similar to barabaras), stone tools, projectile points, and evidence of toolmaking (debitage). Some of the oldest discoveries were made when the National Park Service wanted to prepare the site of a house for public display: during the excavation of one of the candidate sites, rains prompted the digging of a trench to channel water away from that site, and resulted in the discovery of additional sites in the new trench.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.
^ ^a ^b "Brooks River Archeological District". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dumond, Don. "A Naknek Chronicle: Ten Thousand Years in a Land of Lakes and Rivers and Mountains of Fire" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved December 12, 2014.

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Katmai National Park and Preserve
National Historic Landmark districts	Amalik Bay Archeological District Brooks River Archeological District
Historic districts	Kukak Cannery Archeological Historic District Savonoski River Archeological District Takli Island Archeological District
NRHP properties	Archeological Site 49 AF 3 Archeological Site 49 MK 10 Brooks Camp Boat House Brooks River Historic Ranger Station DIL-161 Site Fure's Cabin Kaguyak Village Site Kukak Village Site Old Savonoski Site
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