The kit contains a tarp with the outline of a prehistoric house, laminated artifact pictures, a set of digging tools, and a teacher guide with detailed project instructions. Each summer the Alutiiq Museum sponsors an excavation at an archaeological site near Kodiak. Museum archaeologists choose a deposit that will help answer a significant question in Alutiiq history and focus their efforts on sites that are threatened by erosion, vandalism or modern development. Volunteers, students and interns are invited to join museum archaeologists in the hands-on exploration of Alutiiq heritage and historic preservation. A month of field work is followed by the chance to work in the museum's laboratory.
Participants can earn college or high school credit.
For more information on community archaeology please contact Curator Patrick Saltonstall . See pictures and results from the 1999 Community Archaeology project at the Outlet Site . 2000 Half the fun of archaeology is that you never know what you are going to find according to research associate Bob Kopperl. The Alutiiq Museum staff and volunteers experienced this feeling over the summer. Our 2000 Community Archaeology program was scheduled to study the Array site - a deposit thought to hold a cluster of late prehistoric houses.