A forum for citizens' voices in the development of state history policy. Members advise the Governor on programs concerning history and prehistory, historic sites and buildings, and on geographic names.

Works to preserve sites and buildings that reflect Alaska's heritage. A staff of archaeologists, historians, and architectural historians oversee programs to identify, document and restore sites and buildings, and to educate Alaskans and visitors about these non-renewable resources.

Paul Sounder's analyses of faunal remains from middens at the Ellikarrmiut Village Site reveal a broadly-based late Thule economy, but with specialized spring and summer seasonal economies.

Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene loess deposits, rich with calcium carbonate, have preserved butchered remains of birds and mammals in unequivocal stratigraphic context with human- made stone tools and hearth charcoal at three sites near Shaw Creek in the middle Tanana Valley, the Broken Mammoth, Mead, and Swan Point sites.

Online report from the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology on the discovery of remains of four 19th century Russian-American Company buildings and a huge number of artifacts.

Overview from the American National Park Service. Includes a bibliography of print resources on the topic.

From Backdirt, studying the natural processes that have shaped the archaeological changing physical environment.

From MSNBC, students taking a "Fundamentals of Archaeology" class at Kenai Peninsula College got some hands-on experience on a preliminary archaeological assessment at the old Ward's Cove cannery in Kenai.