Collaboration and Community Engagement 

We are sharing our research through experiential workshops focusing on making and using Arctic ceramics.  We share some aspects of analysis and workshops with the public through short videos shared on platforms such as tiktok and instagram, as well as the Archaeology Roadshow website. 

Past workshops include: 

Goose Camp, 2019 (Igiugig, Alaska)

• Invited to Igiugig culture camp to share ancestral ceramic techniques to school children and adults 

• Experimenting together on how to construct vessels, particularly clay lamps, and how to carry out a pit firing 

• Talked with Elders about clay sources and uses, identified local clay and used it for workshop

Bering Strait Archaeology Camp, 2019 (Nome, Alaska) 

• Sharing how to create Bering Strait-style clay lamps with local teenagers participating in the archaeology camp 

• Carrying out a pit firing together

• Testing which fuel and wick type burned faster and hotter in the lamps

People, Place, and Practice, 2022 (Champoeg, Oregon)

• Collaboration with Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde archaeologists and knowledge-holders to learn about landscape management and food processing

• Demonstration of acorn processing and stone boiling 

Experimental Arctic Pottery Workshop, 2022 (Portland, Oregon)

• Shared information on archaeology, Arctic lifeways, and ceramic technology to local community members at a ceramic studio

• Replicated Paleo - and Neo-Inuit style vessels with participants 

• Demonstrated how Arctic pots were used to cook in a fire 

Here are some videos to check out!