| Summary: | dant evidence of environmental change during the Neoglacial and corresponding cultural responses to the changed conditions. Amaknak Bridge is a key site in the eastern Aleutian archaeological se-quence, and in this preliminary report we will place it in its context as well as briefl y describe its contents. Unalaska Bay is located on the northern coast of Unalaska Island (Fig. 1). The bay offers pro-tection from the Bering Sea as well as rich natu-ral resources and has apparently been a popula-tion center since the earliest human occupation of the Aleutian Islands. Several sites in Unalaska Bay represent the Early Anangula phase beginning more than 8000 rcybp, well known in the litera-ture from the Anangula Blade type site on Umnak Island (McCartney and Veltre 1996). The core and blade industry once thought to be unique to the Anangula phase actually persists in the Aleutians until about 3000 rcybp (Knecht, Davis, and Carver
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