Hell Gap Expedition Records 1961-68

Martin S. Fleischer

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National Geographic Society (U.S.)

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The eruption of Mount Katmai on the Alaska Peninsula in 1912 was one of the great volcanic events of modern history. The eruption covered the town of Kodiak with almost one foot of ash and the explosion was reportedly heard as far away as Juneau, 750 miles distant. To study this phenomena, the National Geographic Society launched several scientific investigating expeditions to Katmai and surrounding areas affected by the eruption. There was a brief expedition to Kodiak and Afognak Islands, led b...

Peabody Museum-National Geographic Early Man Expedition

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The Peabody Museum-National Geographic Early Man Expedition at Hell Gap, Wyoming was a six-year (seasonal) archaeological study of the prehistory of the high plains of eastern Wyoming. The principal investigators on the expedition were Henry T. Irwin of the Peabody Museum, his sister, archaeologist Cynthia Irwin-Williams, and George A. Agogino of the Eastern New Mexico University. Hell Gap had continuous human occupation for 11,000 years and was an excellent site example of tool dev...