Recent Publications

Recent Publications on Kodiak Anthropology and Archaeology

Fitzhugh, Ben and Kate Trusler
2009 Case study in technological evolution: innovation and  experimentation in and with the archaeological record. In, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution, Stephen Shennan, editor.  University of California Press, Berkely.

Haakanson, Sven D. and Amy F. Steffian (editors)
2009  Giinaquq: Like A Face - Sugpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago.  University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

Kimura, Larry and Isiik April G. L. Laktonen Counceller
2009  Indigenous New Words Creation - Perspectives from Alaska and Hawai'i. In Indigenous Language Revitalization – Encouragement, Guidance, and Lessons Learned, edited by J. Reyhner and L. Lockhard.  Northern Arizona University College of Education, Flagstaff.

West, Catherine Foster
2009  Kodiak Island's Prehistoric Fisheries:  Human Dietary Response to Climate Change and Resource Availability.  Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 4(2):223-239.

Clark, Donald W.
2008  Five Seasons with the Late Kachemak.  Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 6(1&2):185-197.

Shaw, Jennie Deo
2008  Modeling fuelwood acquisition strategies in the mid- to late Holocene Gulf of Alaska.  Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle.

Steffian, Amy F. and Patrick G. Saltonstall
2008  Kodiak Archipelago, Southcentral Alaska.  In, Archaeology in America, An Encyclopedia. Francis P. McManamon and Thalia Gray, eds.  Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT.

Steffian, Amy F. and Patrick G. Saltonstall
2007  Archaeology and the Alutiiq Museum.  Alaska Journal of Anthropology 5(2):161-173.

 

Online Resources

• Visit the Native Village of Akhiok on line at the National Museum of the American Indian's Indigenous Geography website.

• Learn about the history of Afognak Island at the Native Village of Afognak web site.

• Find references in the online verson of the Alutiiq Ethnographic Bibliography, compiled by Rachel Mason.

• Download a table of Gulf of Alaska Radiocarbon Dates, compiled by Ben Fitzhugh. 

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Museum Publications

Please visit our on line museum store to browse publications produced by the Alutiiq Museum. 

 

Additional Collections Related Publications

Fitzhugh, Ben
2006  From Sites to Social Evolution: the study of emergent complexity in the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska.  In, Seeking our Past: An Introduction to North American Archaeology, edited by Sarah W. Neusius and G. TImothy Gross.  University of Oxford Press, Oxford.

Partlow, Megan
2006 Sampling Fish Bones: A Consideration of the Importance of Screen Size and Disposal Context in the North Pacific. Arctic Anthropology 43(1):67-79.

Saltonstall, Patrick G. and Amy F. Steffian
2006 The Archaeology of Horseshoe Cove. Ocaissional Papers in Field Archaeology, Number 1. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indidan Affairs, Alaska Region, Office of Regional Archaeology, Anchorage.

Steffian, Amy F.
2006  Teaching Traditions.  In, Starting a Tribal Museum, edited by Karen Cody Copper and Duncan Primeaux, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.

Steffian, Amy F. and Patrick Saltonstall

2006 Tools Not Tool Kits: Traces of the Arctic Small Tool Tradition in the Kodiak Archipelago. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 3(1):17-49.

Steffian, Amy F., Patrick G. Saltonstall, and Robert E. Kopperl

2006 Expanding the Kachemak: Surplus Production and the Development of Multi-season Storage in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago. Arctic Anthropology 43(2):93-129.

Fitzhugh, Ben
2004  Colonizing the Kodiak Archipelago: Trends in raw material use and lithic technologies at the Tanginak Spring site. Arctic Anthropology 41(1):14-40.

Fitzhugh, Ben
2003 The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers Archaeological Evidence from the North Pacific. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers.

Fitzhugh, Ben
2002 The Origins of of Maritime Hunter-Gatherers in the North Pacific: A View from Kodiak Island.  In New Perspectives on the Study of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Cultures, Siro Sasak, editor, Pp. 49-82.  Senri Ethnological Report 33.  National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

Fitzhugh, Ben
2002 Residential and logistical strategies in the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago. In, Beyond Foragers and Collectors: Evolutionary change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems, Ben Fitzhugh and Junko Habu, editors, Pp. 257-304. Kluwer-Plenum Press, New York.

Haakanson, Sven
2002 Nouvell vie des masques a Kodiak Aujourd'hui. In Kodiak Alaska: Les Masques de la collection Alphonse Pinart, edited by Emmanuel Desveaux, Adam Biro.

Knecht, Richard A., Sven Haakanson, and Shawn Dickson
2002 Awa’uq: Discovery and Excavation of an 18th Century Alutiiq Refuge Rock in the Kodiak Archipelago. In To the Aleutians and Beyond:, Bruno Frohlich, Albert S. Harper, and Rolf Gilberg, editors, Pp. 177-191. Publications of the National Museum Ethnographical Series, Vol. 20. Department of Ethnography, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. the Anthropology of William S. Laughlin

Steffian, Amy F., Libby Eufemio, and Patrick G. Saltonstall
2002 Early Sites and Microblade Technologies from the Kodiak Archipelago. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska NS 2(1):1-38.

Crowell, Aron L., Amy F. Steffian, Gordon L. Pullar
2001 Looking Both Ways : Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

Steffian, Amy F. and Patrick Saltonstall
2001 Markers of Identity: Labrets and in the Kodiak Archipelago. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 3(1):17-49.