A student volunteer holds a 3,00-year-old tool chipped from red chert. (Photo Courtesy of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Every summer, the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository hosts a community project in Kodiak. Students and community members join in. This season, they are excavating a site on a little island off Near Island, which appears to be …
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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 …
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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 …
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