HR: 0800h
AN: ED11A-0115    [Abstracts]
TI: The Nuvuk Archaeological Project: Learning About and From the Past in the North
AU: * Jensen, A M
EM: anne.jensen@uicscience.org
AF: UIC Science LLC, PO Box 577, Barrow, AK 99723, United States
AB: This poster describes an ongoing project which involves Northern students in archaeological and ethnographic research, and also presents information to a broader non-Northern audience. The Nuvuk Archaeological Project involves students in all phases of a major archaeological project to excavate threatened cultural resources, and save the data they contain about the past 1100 or 1200 years of history at Nuvuk. The project includes excavation of a significant Thule cemetery as well as more modern work areas. Next season it will expand to include some work at Piġniq (Birnirk), type site of the Birnirk culture. This project has been ongoing since 2005, and builds on experience with training high school and college students in Arctic fieldwork and laboratory archaeology. This season we added components to accommodate visiting students from Hawaii and students from the Rural Alaskan Honors Institute (RAHI) program, as well as students from the local junior college, some of whom were non-traditional students.
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0855 Diversity
DE: 1630 Impacts of global change (1225)
DE: 6699 General or miscellaneous
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting