Ca. 7,000 year old caribou mandible from the Tingmiukpuk archaeological site in Gates of the Arctic National Park. NPS photo by Jeff Rasic

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Volume 15 (1-2) 2017

Date Posted: January 18, 2018       Categories:

Part I Special Section: Maritime Anthropology

Guest Editors: Jason Rogers and Evguenia Anichtchenko

 

The Magoun Clam Garden Near Sitka, Alaska: Niche Construction Theory Meets Traditional Ecological Knowledge, but What about the Risks of Shellfish Toxicity?

Madonna Moss and Hannah Wellman

 

Reconstructing the St. Lawrence Island Kayak: From Forgotten Watercraft to a Bering Sea Maritime Network

Evguenia Anichenko

 

Archaeological Remains of Precontact Watercraft on the Northwest Coast

Kathryn Bernick

 

Report of 2012-2015 Research Relating to the Russian-American Company Ship Neva and Potential Shipwreck Survivor Camp, Alaska

David McMahan

 

The “Beeswax Wreck”: A Manila Galleon Wreck on the North Oregon Coast

Scott Williams

 

The Lost Treasures of Ipiutak

Jacques Marc

 

Part II

Late Precontact Settlement on the northern Seward Peninsula Coast: Results from Recent Fieldwork

Shelby Anderson and Justin Junge

 

Haa Daat Akawshixit/”He Wrote about Us”: Contextualizing Anthropologist John R. Swanton’s Fieldwork and Writings on the Tlingit Indians, 1904-1909

Zachary Jones

 

Catching Gold Fever: A Social History of Typhoid Fever among the Klondike Gold Rushers, 1896-1904

Megan J. Highet

 

Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

Compiled by Monty Rogers

 

Book Reviews

Marking the Land: Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in Their Environment

(Edited by William A. Lovis and Robert Whallon)

Reviewed by Aubrey Cannon

 

The Archaeology of Coffman Cove: 5500 Years of Settlement in the Heart of Southeast Alaska

(Madonna L. Moss, Justin M. Hays, Peter M. Bowers, and Douglas Reger)

Reviewed by Andrew Martindale

 

The Enigmatic World of Ancient Graffiti: Rock Art in Chukotka, the Chaunskaya Region, Russia

(Margarita Kiryak [Dikova])

Reviewed by Karisa Terry

 

Face the Sea: In Memory of Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya

(Edited by Igor I. Krupnik)

Reviewed by Olga Romanenko



Volume 16 (1) 2018

Date Posted: September 30, 2018       Categories:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

ANTHROPOLOGY ON THE ROCKS: PORTRAITS OF THE GWICH’IN
BY AMERICAN FIELD GEOLOGISTS, 1898–1927
Craig Mishler

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE UPPERMOST TANANA: RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF THE
NABESNA AND CHISANA RIVERS, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA
Joshua J. Lynch, Ted Goebel, Kelly E. Graf, and Jeffrey T. Rasic

THE ERODAWAY SITE: LITHIC TECHNOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AT A
LATE GLACIAL CAMP IN THE CENTRAL ALASKA RANGE
Charles E. Holmes, Josh Reuther, Jacob S. Adams, Peter Bowers, and Allison Little

INTRODUCTION TO “THEY ARE INVETERATE USERS OF TOBACCO”: DR. JAMES TAYLOR WHITE’S 1898 MANUSCRIPT ON TOBACCO USE AND PIPE CONSTRUCTION AMONG ALASKA NATIVES
Gary C. Stein

“THEY ARE INVETERATE USERS OF TOBACCO”
Edited and annotated by Gary C. Stein

REPORT

LATE HOLOCENE LAND-USE ALONG THE MIDDLE FORK OF THE FORTYMILE RIVER, ALASKA
Sam Coffman, Robin Mills, and Scott Shirar

BOOK REVIEWS

WALTER HARPER, ALASKA NATIVE SON (MARY F. EHRLANDER) 107
Reviewed by William Simeone

SHEM PETE’S ALASKA: THE TERRITORY OF THE UPPER COOK INLET DENA’INA
(REVISED SECOND EDITION) (JAMES KARI, JAMES A. FALL, AND SHEM PETE) 109
Reviewed by Scott Heyes

THESIS AND DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Monty Rogers

ALASKA JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY STYLE GUIDE



Volume 16 (2) 2018

Date Posted: February 7, 2019       Categories:

ARTICLES

Sinew thread production and stitch properties in Arctic Alaskan clothing construction. . . . . . . .1
Diana R. Ewing and Christyann M. Darwent

Constructing rock cairns: modifying and signifying the alpine landscape of southeast Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Ralph J. Hartley, William J. Hunt, Jr. and Amanda Renner

One word, many worlds: the polyvocality of subsistence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Susanna Gartler

TRANSLATIONS

Introduction to uicimaalleq (walter kelly): Pilot Station, Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Kenneth L. Pratt

Two oral history narratives by uicimaalleq (Walter Kelly). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Translated by Monica Shelden; edited and annotated by Kenneth L. Pratt

Four short Russian translations related to the Eskimo region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Translated by Richard L. Bland

ESSAY

Memoir of the Japanese sea otter hunting vessel kaisei-maru. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Yoko Kugo

BOOK REVIEWS

Stories find you, places know: Yup’ik narratives of a sentient world (Cusack-mcveigh). . . . . . 101
Reviewed by Ellen Carrlee

Many stories to tell / qanemcit amllertut (Fienup-Riordan, ed. and Rearden, trans.). . . . . . 103
Reviewed by Wanni W. Anderson

The last house at Bridge River: the archaeology of an aboriginal household in British Columbia
(Prentiss, ed.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 105
Reviewed by T. Max Friesen

Naut’staarpet / our plants: a Kodiak Alutiiq plantlore (Russell). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..107
Reviewed by Kevin Jernigan

Menadelook: an Inupiat teacher’s photographs of Alaska village life, 1907–1932 (Eileen Norbert, ed.) . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Reviewed by Richard Stern

2017-2018 Research notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Edited by Anne M. Jensen

Thesis and dissertation abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Monty Rogers