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Museum of the North Stories and Events April 2018
Come to the University of Alaska Museum of the North’s April Family Day event Stories on Saturday April 21st from 2-4 pm. Explore diverse stories at the museum! Listen to a Yup’ik storyteller. Discover stories of the past with archaeologists. Record your own interview with family or friends, make a storybook, and more!
Kids 14 and under free on Family Days.
Alaska Archaeology Month Events 2018
April is Archaeology Month in Alaska!
Visit our webpage https://www.alaskaanthropology.org/archaeology-month/to find events in April 2018.
ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM (UAF Department of Anthropology)
UNDERSTANDING THE SUCCESS AND SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS AFTER 50,000 YEARS AGO: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOUTHERN LEVANT
By Dr. Jamie L. Clark
Friday April 6th, 2018
3-5 PM
Bunnell Building Room 302
The Adelphi University, Department of Anthropology, 2018 Archaeological Field Methods in Alaska program
The Adelphi University, Department of Anthropology welcomes applications for our 2018 Archaeological Field Methods in Alaska program. Interested students can find more information in the attached program flyers and our latest 2-minute short YouTube. Review of applications will continue until the course is full.
This year, research will focus on the newly discovered Holzman site along Shaw Creek where multiple hearths, large mammal bones, stone tools, and a nearly complete mammoth tusk, and a single complete mammoth hair were found and dated to the end of the Ice Age. Join our research team in the scenic Tanana Valley as we investigate the question, who were the First Alaskans?
Taught by experienced faculty with a student-instructor ratio among the lowest available (3:1), this program emphasizes a range of experiential learning opportunities. Already have a field school experience but looking for something more? We also offer an advanced program for graduate credit (0103-532). For PhD candidates, individual research projects may be negotiated.
For more information about Archaeological Field Methods in Alaska email Brian Wygal (bwygal_at_adelphi.edu) or visit us online for application instructions at http://anthropology.adelphi.edu/alaska.
Archaeology Month event Mission 49 Launch Party
M49 Journey to Alaska’s Past Launch Party
(See details M49-invitation)
Mission 49 is a scavenger hunt phone app encouraging kids to move to play and learn about stewardship, sustainability, and Alaska Native Cultures.
First Friday, April 6
Alaska State Museum
3:45 pm to 7:00 pm
The Hidden and The Obvious, Two Different Styles of Kodiak Petroglyphs (the Alutiiq Museum)
An archaeology month from the Alutiiq Museum
Patrick Saltonstall, Curator of Archaeology
Thursday, April 26, 2018, 7:oo pm
Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak
$5 suggested donation
Tribal Climate Science Liaison (The Southwest Climate Science Center in Tucson, AZ)
Research Architectural Historians (Northern Land Use Research Alaska, LLC)
NLURA is seeking applicants to develop a qualified applicant pool of Research Architectural Historians for work in Alaska. Individuals interested in working for NLURA in 2018 will be selected from this pool. The Research Architectural Historian performs a wide range of project-based research tasks in architecture, historic preservation, and cultural resources management. The nature of the work involves, but is not limited to, Section 106, 36 CFR part 800 – Protection of Historic Properties, Cultural Resource Management principals, and practices.
Applicants approved for the qualified applicant pool must have a strong familiarity with the National Register of Historic Places criteria and a working knowledge of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. Applicants must meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for architectural history which requires either a Master’s Degree in architectural history, historic preservation, or a closely related field, with coursework in American architectural history; or a Bachelor’s degree in architectural history, art history, historic preservation, or a closely related field and including coursework in American architectural history, and five years of full time experience in research and writing concentrating on historic preservation and/or architectural history. Preferred experience includes knowledge of Section 106 and state and local register criteria and statuses and experience in landscape history and architecture and/or culture landscape experience.
Successful applicants will have a strong knowledge of architectural history and styles in the United States and the ability to describe them in clear, narrative prose, and experience working with survey and inventory methods of recordation and evaluation. Positions in the qualified applicant pool are seasonal and work is on-call as needed. Acceptance into the qualified applicant pool is not a guarantee of a job offer or a guarantee of hours in 2018. A letter of interest and resume/CV can be sent to Human Resources at hr[at]hrassoc.com.
For more information regarding this position, and to apply online, please visit our website: https://www.northernlanduse.com/about/employment/
Seasonal Archaeological Technicians Positions, (Northern Land Use Research Alaska, LLC)
NLURA is seeking applicants to develop a qualified applicant pool of Archaeological Technicians for work in 2018. Individuals interested in working for NLURA in 2018 will be selected only from this pool. The Archaeological Technician – Seasonal performs archaeological field work, lab work, or related office work under the direction and supervision of a NLURA Archaeologist. Applicants approved for the pool must have (at minimum) a Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology or Anthropology. Preferred applicants will have experience working in the field, conducting analysis of research data, and contributing to research reports. Required skills include the ability to effectively conduct research activities, conduct appropriate aspects of fieldwork using appropriate field techniques, develop and maintain positive relationships, the ability to balance work schedules and demands, provide and receive feedback, seek to resolve conflict through communication and collaboration, and use effective verbal and written communication to listen and communicate effectively. Applicants must be proficient in the use of computer programs and database systems and have familiarity with the operations and use of cameras, GPS, and GIS equipment and software. Candidates should assume that most of their working hours will be spent in the field. Position will be open until close of business Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Positions are seasonal, and work is on-call, as needed.
Acceptance into the qualified applicant pool is not a guarantee of a job offer or a guarantee of hours in 2018. Please submit your application materials using the form below. A letter of interest and resume/CV can also be sent to Human Resources at hr[at]hrassoc.com.
For more information regarding this position, and to apply online, please visit our website: https://www.northernlanduse.com/about/employment/
Invitation to the “Anthropology of Alaska, Two Minutes at a Time”
Just a reminder that we are now just over two months away from this years’ aaa’s, and hopefully, from the SIXTH ANNUAL “Anthropology of Alaska, Two Minutes at a Time.” We have had a great series of talks the last few years, and I hope the tradition can continue. The event will be sometime Wednesday night, 3/21, during the opening reception.
If you are getting this email, it means you have done a two-minute paper in the past (or maybe I’m just hoping you’ll do one or know someone who might!), so I thought I would try and convince you to submit something this year. And of course feel free to forward this around so we can get more papers. You do not need to submit an official abstract for this session, just confirm with me.
So, please email me and let me know if you’d be interested in doing a quick paper on a cool artifact you found, a hilarious fieldwork story, or a teaser for a formal paper you’re doing. All I need right now is your name, and if you want, the general title or topic of your paper. If you’ve already emailed me this year, then you’re good to go!
If you are going to do a two minute paper (and I hope you are!), I need your slides by COB March 15th at the latest. Remember, the presentations go fast, so I need to compile them all into one huge powerpoint presentation so we can move quickly from one to the other.
Let me know if you have any questions, and I’ll see you in Anchorage!
Jenny H. Blanchard
Archaeologist
BLM Anchorage Field Office
4700 BLM Road
Anchorage, AK 99507
(907) 267-1341 (phone)
(907) 267-1267 (fax)