Nice view, but all you see when you dig is dirt!
Gotta look up once and awhile.
Molly, a local girl turned archaeologist.
She played in the Rice Ridge backdirt in 1989 and found her career!
Jill, always workin' longer and harder than anyone!
My little area for that day.
The museum's Comm Arch program is pretty darn remarkable for a few reasons. Anyone (over the age of 14) can come and excavate right on the road system! High school students and college students can earn college credit and we often offer a PAID internship to go out in the field!
Also, the museum is actively engaged in research. Patrick, Amy, and Sven even publish their results! It used to be that Dr. Joe Schmo from X university came here and dug for three weeks at one site and left, taking all the artifacts and information far away. Instead, with the museum, the artifacts stay here in Kodiak, under professional care, and we share what we learned from the excavation.
This is year 14 of Comm Arch. Conducting a long-term study of an area on Kodiak Island is unique. Through archaeology, I imagine that Patrick and crew have developed like a bird's eye view of how Women's Bay was used through time, seasonally. So, for example, at one site 4000 years ago Alutiiqs were cod fishing and at another site 200 years ago Alutiiqs were cod fishing commercially for the Russians - same resource but used very differently! What is distinctive about the project is that they're digging the range of sites in the annual round – across time. So we are getting the spatial and temporal dimensions of subsistence practices in one environment to build a broader picture of prehistoric life.
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