FALL PNWAS,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Melting Permafrost
and Rescue Archaeology
in a Yup’ik Village
By Dr. Rick Knecht, University of Aberdeen, UK
and Rescue Archaeology
in a Yup’ik Village
By Dr. Rick Knecht, University of Aberdeen, UK
PNWAS ZOOM Meeting
Thursday October 16th 2025
starting at 6:30 PM
To join the ZOOM Meeting and see the presentation
please become a member today!
Thursday October 16th 2025
starting at 6:30 PM
To join the ZOOM Meeting and see the presentation
please become a member today!
See this recent PBS news video and interview with Dr. Rick Knecht at site and crew in lab:
How a warming Arctic may be eroding indigenous history in Alaska:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3r7r5m8ts
Listen to more on this amazing site in this 2024 radio show
description of work at this frozen archaeological site:
https://www.kyuk.org/arts-culture-community-features/2024-12-06/15-yearsin-
the-success-of-community-based-archaeology-in-quinhagak-is-bittersweet
How a warming Arctic may be eroding indigenous history in Alaska:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3r7r5m8ts
Listen to more on this amazing site in this 2024 radio show
description of work at this frozen archaeological site:
https://www.kyuk.org/arts-culture-community-features/2024-12-06/15-yearsin-
the-success-of-community-based-archaeology-in-quinhagak-is-bittersweet
Dr. Rick Knecht has been conducting archaeological research in Alaska since 1983. He lived and worked on the Kodiak and Aleutian Archipelagos and was founding director of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository on Kodiak and the Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska.
He has generously offered to join us by ZOOM to present to PNWAS members the amazing discoveries made at the Nunalleq Archaeological Project in Quinhagak, Alaska since 2009.
He currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and is working on analysis of precontact Yup’ik material culture from the Nunalleq site. The site work is described as recovering one jawdropping museum piece per person per day!!!! I think you’ll agree!
He has generously offered to join us by ZOOM to present to PNWAS members the amazing discoveries made at the Nunalleq Archaeological Project in Quinhagak, Alaska since 2009.
He currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and is working on analysis of precontact Yup’ik material culture from the Nunalleq site. The site work is described as recovering one jawdropping museum piece per person per day!!!! I think you’ll agree!
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