Rick Knecht
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Honouring ancestry, celebrating presence – the grand opening of the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center
Honouring ancestry, celebrating presence – the grand opening of the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center Open
Acknowledgements Firstly, we want to acknowledge the contribution by Stephan Jones, first Director of the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center and Director of QHI, who is sadly no longer with us. Stephan was one of the organisers behind…
View article: Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic Open
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit …
View article: The Archaeoentomology of a conflict scene: blow-flies and ectoparasites from pre-contact (16-17th c. a.d.) Yup’ik Nunalleq, Alaska.
The Archaeoentomology of a conflict scene: blow-flies and ectoparasites from pre-contact (16-17th c. a.d.) Yup’ik Nunalleq, Alaska. Open
International audience
View article: Datasets S2 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Datasets S2 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic Open
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit …
View article: Datasets S4 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Datasets S4 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic Open
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit …
View article: Datasets S1 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Datasets S1 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic Open
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit …
View article: Datasets S6 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Datasets S6 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic Open
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit …
View article: Investigating the Utility of Birds in Precontact Yup’ik Subsistence: A Preliminary Analysis of the Avian Remains from Nunalleq
Investigating the Utility of Birds in Precontact Yup’ik Subsistence: A Preliminary Analysis of the Avian Remains from Nunalleq Open
Birds have been an integral part of traditional Yup’ik lifeways in the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, southwest Alaska, both economically and symbolically. From a subsistence point of view, the rich ethnographic record for the region highlights th…
View article: Activity Areas or Conflict Episode? Interpreting the Spatial Patterning of Lice and Fleas at the Precontact Yup’ik Site of Nunalleq (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries AD, Alaska)
Activity Areas or Conflict Episode? Interpreting the Spatial Patterning of Lice and Fleas at the Precontact Yup’ik Site of Nunalleq (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries AD, Alaska) Open
Archaeoentomological research at the precontact site of Nunalleq (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD), Southwest Alaska, has identified hundreds of lice and fleas that infested both the human inhabitants of the site and their canine co…
View article: Datasets S3 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Datasets S3 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic Open
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit …
View article: The Fabric of Basketry: Initial Archaeological Study of the Grass Artifacts Assemblage from the Nunalleq Site, Southwest Alaska
The Fabric of Basketry: Initial Archaeological Study of the Grass Artifacts Assemblage from the Nunalleq Site, Southwest Alaska Open
More than two thousand archaeological grass artifacts dating from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century have been recovered from Nunalleq (GDN-248), an archaeological site located near the village of Quinhagak, southwest Alaska, in eigh…
View article: “The Old Village”: Yup’ik Precontact Archaeology and Community-Based Research at the Nunalleq Site, Quinhagak, Alaska
“The Old Village”: Yup’ik Precontact Archaeology and Community-Based Research at the Nunalleq Site, Quinhagak, Alaska Open
Centred on the underresearched precontact archaeology of southwest coastal Alaska, the Nunalleq project is a decade-long collaboration between the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak and the University of Aberdeen. The Nunalleq archaeological site…
View article: Datasets S5 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Datasets S5 from Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic Open
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit …
View article: Hunted and Honoured: Animal Representations in Precontact Masks from the Nunalleq Site, Southwest Alaska
Hunted and Honoured: Animal Representations in Precontact Masks from the Nunalleq Site, Southwest Alaska Open
The precontact lifeways of Yup’ik people in Southwest Alaska were poorly known until the 2009–2018 excavations at the Nunalleq site near the village of Quinhagak. Until recently, the site dating from around AD 1400–1675 had been locked in …
View article: Early medieval shellfish gathering at the Sands of Forvie, Aberdeenshire: feast or famine?
Early medieval shellfish gathering at the Sands of Forvie, Aberdeenshire: feast or famine? Open
From 2010 to 2014, extensive shell middens were excavated at the Sands of Forvie, Aberdeenshire, and the wider landscape explored through a programme of soil and geophysical survey. The middens were dated to the 1st millennium AD and appea…
View article: Reconstructing caribou seasonal biogeography in Little Ice Age (late Holocene) Western Alaska using intra-tooth strontium and oxygen isotope analysis
Reconstructing caribou seasonal biogeography in Little Ice Age (late Holocene) Western Alaska using intra-tooth strontium and oxygen isotope analysis Open
Acknowledgements This work was funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/K006029/1) grant awarded to Rick Knecht, Kate Britton and Charlotta Hillerdal (Aberdeen). The onsite collection of samples was carried out by staff and st…
View article: Early Medieval Shellfish Exploitation in Northwest Europe: Investigations at the Sands of Forvie Shell Middens, Eastern Scotland, and the Role of Coastal Resources in the First Millennium AD
Early Medieval Shellfish Exploitation in Northwest Europe: Investigations at the Sands of Forvie Shell Middens, Eastern Scotland, and the Role of Coastal Resources in the First Millennium AD Open
Coastal shell middens represent a well-known element of the archaeological record of island and coastal regions across the world and shellfish have been an important resource for subsistence since the mid Holocene. However, the factors tha…
View article: Dating and Digging Stratified Archaeology in Circumpolar North America: A View from Nunalleq, Southwestern Alaska
Dating and Digging Stratified Archaeology in Circumpolar North America: A View from Nunalleq, Southwestern Alaska Open
Through the case study of the Thule-era village site of Nunalleq (GDN-248), this paper presents 14C dating results and perspectives on the issues associated with radiocarbon dating stratified archaeological sites in circumpolar North Ameri…
View article: Stable carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope analysis of permafrost preserved human hair from rescue excavations (2009, 2010) at the precontact site of Nunalleq, Alaska
Stable carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope analysis of permafrost preserved human hair from rescue excavations (2009, 2010) at the precontact site of Nunalleq, Alaska Open
The reconstruction of diet and subsistence strategies is integral to understanding hunter-gatherer societies in the past, and is particularly of interest in high latitude environments as they can illuminate human-environmental interactions…