North West United States

 

Fort Vancouver (Washington, Oregon) The Vancouver National Historic Reserve is one of the premier historical archaeological sites in the Pacific Northwest. Over fifty years of excavations have uncovered more than 2 million artifacts spanning the Native American, Hudson's Bay Company, and U.S. Army occupations of the site. An ongoing public archaeology program is held each year.


 The Fifth Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study
(Lewiston, Idaho)
This project uses The 5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study is a GIS-based project that marries current GIS, GPS and surveying technologies with traditional historical research and fieldwork. The purpose of the project was initially to introduce selected junior high school students to the use of global positioning system (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS) management to plot and analyze patterns at the Normal Hill site.

 Historical Archaeology at Centerville: Uncovering a Chinese Legacy
(Centerville, Idaho)

1804 Battle of Sitka: Tlingit/Russian Colonists (Alaska)
This National Park Service web site provides a research report on archaeological studies done in Sitka National Historical Park that discovered the location of the Tlingit fort built to prepare for battle with the Russian colonists.

 


Updated 1/25/2012