77-47-Q301 Vertebra Pendant, Hot Springs Village

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Vertebral Disk Pendant. Recovered from a small cetacean in Hot Springs Village, Port Moller, Alaska, Catalog Number 77-47-Q291. Okada excavations HHQ, Level 4-8 Hot Springs 1C date back to 1300-1000 BCE. Located on the shore of Port Moller, the massive village at Hot Springs marks a significant site on the Alaska Peninsula side of the southern Bering Sea. Excavated by multiple teams over the past century, its primary occupations span from 2000 BCE to 1000 BCE, and again from 100 CE to 800 CE. The artifacts unearthed from the Hot Springs site are presented as part of a research project supported by grants NSF 0137756, NSF 1204020, NSF 1139266, and NSF 1321411. H. Maschner led the investigation as Principal Investigator. The initial digitization was conducted at the IVL at Id. St. Univ., with subsequent processing completed at Global Digital Heritage.