Well-preserved artifacts recovered from snow patches in the high country of Alaska and the Yukon coupled with Native oral histories are providing a fascinating picture of how Athabascan people hunted, trapped, and gathered resources in alpine areas before western contact. Richard VanderHoek with the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology will bring artifact re-creations and explain how ice patch archaeology is helping us better understand how people lived here long ago.
The talk begins at 7 p.m. at the Bureau of Land Management’s Campbell Creek Science Center. The Science Center is located at the Campbell Tract, near 68th Avenue and Elmore Road.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
