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 State of Alaska > Natural Resources > Parks and Outdoor Recreation > History and Archaeology |
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Alaska Heritage Resources Survey - General Overview |
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The Alaska Heritage Resources Survey (AHRS) is a restricted inventory of all reported historic and prehistoric sites within the State of Alaska and is maintained by the Office of History and Archaeology. This inventory of cultural resources includes objects, structures, buildings, sites, districts, and travel ways, with a general provision that they are over 50 years old. To date over 35,000 sites have been reported within Alaska (however, this is only a small percentage of the sites that may actually exist but are as yet unreported). The fundamental use of the AHRS is to protect cultural resource sites from unwanted destruction. Various state and federal agencies and private companies use the inventory when planning or reviewing development projects. By knowing of reported cultural remains prior to construction, efforts can be made to avoid project delays and prevent unnecessary destruction of these non-renewable resources. Listing on the AHRS does not, in and of itself, provide protection for sites. But it does allow for knowledgeable decisions to be made concerning the future of these sites. The AHRS is primarily a map based system, using USGS topographic maps at 1:250,000 and 1:63,360 (1" = 1 mile) scales. Each site is given an individual designation consisting of a trigraph for the quadrangle in which it is located and a unique sequential number within that quadrangle, i.e., SIT-010 is the AHRS number for the tenth site recorded within the Sitka quadrangle. For each individual site, the AHRS contains a site record containing such information as the site name, a description of the physical remains, data on the site's location, and a list of bibliographic citations, as well as a variety of additional information relevant to management and research needs. |
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