Artifact styles indicate that the site was occupied in the late part of the Kachemak Tradition, probably about 1000 years ago. The composition of the collection suggests that the main activity was salmon fishing and processing. Implements are mainly ulu knife blades, which would have been used for cutting salmon, abraders and hones used to form and sharpen the ulus, projectile points, and notched pebble net weights. Most of these can be assigned to the house occupation. More than 300 artifacts were recovered from the house fill and floor (the catalog includes additional items that are not implements). Cultural deposits were not deep, one or meter or less encompassed the house remains and occupational refuse from the floor to the base of the Katmai volcanic ash. They also include 5.5 square meters of a stone slab-paved "patio" at the front of the house and 5.5 square meters of a second room attached to the house. These extended from the front to the back of a faint subrectangular house depression that was approximately 8 or 9 meters long and 6 meters wide (Fig. The equivalent of twenty-two one meter-square units were excavated. Numerous maul fragments for driving fish weir stakes and notched pebble weights from nets litter both shores of the bend, attesting to the former concentration of fishing activity there. 1) where at certain stages of the tide salmon are abundantly present. We have selected the name "Salmon Bend." The site along with others is located at a bend in the tidal reach of the Afognak River (Fig. In State of Alaska Office of History and Archaeology records the site is designated as part of 49 Afg-010. The NVA Dig Afognak camp at Katenai provided logistical support including camp facilities, meals, lodging and equipment and transportation. Young and adult participants in two Science Camp sessions also assisted. The writer, assisted sequentially by Meagan Holms and John Ignatin, Jr., term contract employees of the Native Village of Afognak did the excavation. LITNIK ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE SALMON BEND SITE - 2002Īn archaeological excavation by the Native Village of Afognak and Afognak Native Corporation (NVA, ANC) was made at the mouth of the Afognak River at Litnik in 2002 as part of a continuing program for documenting Afognak history. Prepared at Kodiak, Alaska, for the Native Village of Afognak Pattern in a clay deposit near hearth in the main structure. Litnik Archaeology Salmon Bend Site – 2002
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