Tag Archives: Patrick Saltonstall

Museum archaeologist Patrick Saltonstall and helicopter pilot Keller Wattum documenting a petroglyph site on Afognak. (Photo courtesy of Patrick Saltonstall) Mitch Borden/KMXT A local researcher took to the air to do a survey on Afognak Island, but what was meant to be a routine assessment of known historical sites turned into a day full of surprises. Patrick Saltonstall usually travels …

Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall holds up the journal documenting his discoveries at Kiliuda Bay. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT When the colder months come around, local archeologists settle in to process the warmer month’s discoveries. That’s what Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall is doing. He’s turning the museum’s findings about a site …

Patrick Saltonstall holds Alutiiq knife. (Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum is at the beginning of a project to record and describe all of its roughly 300 kinds of artifacts. The museum just received an almost $50,000 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services via Koniag, which owns many of the …

This stone lamp was found by Calvin Fair at Chief Cove in western Kodiak around 1987. It has been returned to Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum. Photo by Clark Fair Kayla Desroches/KMXT Artifacts sometimes end up in attics or storage boxes miles away from their places of origin. That was the case for one object that started on Kodiak Island and found …

Rocks alignments representing the remains of an intertidal fish trap, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photograph courtesy the Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT A local archaeologist says there may be the remains of a historic Alutiiq fish trap on the north end of Kodiak Island. He says those types of man-made formations are rare to discover in the region. The Alutiiq Museum is …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A series of talks Saturday will apply many different academic disciplines to one overarching theme: climate change. The day’s schedule includes perspectives from English studies, science, and archaeology. The Kodiak College Community Engagement Committee is responsible for the event’s organization. Committee member Libby Eufemio, an assistant professor of Alaska Native studies, says in the past they’ve brought a …

Patrick Saltonstall stands in front of site. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT This year’s Community Archaeology Program, which turns Kodiak locals into archaeologists, wrapped up this month. It was the last year digging the Kashevaroff site at Womens Bay, and Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall says this year confirmed a lot of the conclusions they’d previously drawn. He says …

Patrick Saltonstall stands in front of site. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository is in the midst of Community Archaeology, a program which reaches out residents to help dig archaeological sites in the Womens Bay region. The volunteers have the option to meet at the museum in the morning and head out there with staff for …

Patrick Saltonstall holds Alutiiq knife. Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum’s Community Archeology program led to the discovery of a knife this week. Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology, Patrick Saltonstall, says they’re in the fourth year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek, and focus on a different spot each time. He …

Excavations at the Kashevaroff site during Community Archaeology 2015. Courtesy of the Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak’s amateur and professional archaeologists are in their final year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek as part of the Alutiiq Museum’s Community Archeology program. Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall says they’ve been unearthing different parts of the same site for the …