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Gambell Sites

Gambell Sites
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Former U.S. National Historic Landmark
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
One of the Gambell Sites
Location	Address restricted[1], St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, USA
Nearest city	Gambell, Alaska
NRHP reference No.	66000160
AHRS No.	XLS-061
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966[2]
Designated NHL	1962
Delisted NHL	January 13, 1989[3]

The Gambell Sites are five archeological sites which established a chronology of over 2000 years of human habitation on St. Lawrence Island near Gambell, Alaska.^[3]

The sites (named Hillside, Mayughaaq, Ayveghyaget, Old Gambell, and Seklowaghyag) have provided evidence of four cultural phases of the Thule tradition. Digging first began in 1927 and the sites were labelled a National Historic Landmark in 1962. As with all previously existing National Historic Landmark sites, the sites were listed on the National Register of Historic Places when the registry opened in 1966.^[2]

Over the 20th century, the archeological value of the sites was largely destroyed due to locals digging up the buried ivory and the landmark designation was withdrawn in 1989.^[3] The sites remain listed on the National Register.

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