Archeological Overview and Assessment of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

America and the Asian Continent.¿ The park has an archeological record reaching back to perhaps more than 12,000 years ago. The Assessment will lay a foundation necessary to develop new projects to identify yet unknown resources. The report will review the available literature and existing archeological databases maintained by the NPS. The Archeological Overview and Assessment report will: 1) provide a comprehensive overview of the environmental setting, past and present (e.g., paleoecology, paleoclimate); 2) provide a review and summary of the known archeological resources in the Preserve to produce an updated culture history; 3) identify major themes, research problems, key sites, and data gaps; 4) document previous survey efforts detailing when and where archeological survey has been conducted in previous years and the areas never inventoried; 5) analyze the known data and research history to make informed recommendations on where to focus new management efforts including inventory and data recovery projects. The report will include a list of the known sites, site types, dated sites, a radiocarbon database, and a comprehensive bibliography.