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• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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 th
  
• - Overview from the American National Park Service. Includes a bibliography of print resources on the topic.
  
• - 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.
  
• - From Backdirt, studying the natural processes that have shaped the archaeological changing physical environment.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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