Old hearths, bird bone straws (?!), and microblades, oh my! We did it again folks, we survived another field season. From the ice on the lake as we moved in to positive covid tests as we moved out, it was a season equally matched by the elements as my crew's resistance to them. I brought a combination of graduate and recently graduated UW students along with field school students new to Alaska and to field archaeology for about 30 days of work at the Bachner site. I arrived in Alaska right after the last post, in early May, to find that spring hadn't yet come to the Interior. What had been an unrelentingly brutal winter (so bad even moose couldn't take it) wasn't ready to quit. For context, I remember it snowing during May exactly once during the 15 years I lived there as a kid. Needless to say, by the time my crew arrived, the lake was still frozen (but not frozen enough to walk across) and we were essentially stranded on the road side of the Bachner Site. What's a field school to do when you can't get to the field? |
AuthorBree is an Alaskan Archaeologist originally from Fairbanks. Today, she's an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Archives
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