Tundra fires and two archaeological sites in the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.

Abstract

A 1977 tundra fire in the Seward Peninsula, Alaska removed the vegetation mats surrounding and covering several stone-lined pits and a cache pit near the east shore of Imuruk Lake. Bones and artifacts which had been covered by and incorporated into these vegetation mats were strikingly revealed. These observations supplement the original interpretation of the sites and suggest benefits from locating and examining archaeological sites in areas of relatively recent tundra fire.-from Authors