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Dr. Bree Doering
Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
I have over a decade of experience conducting archaeological fieldwork around the world, and have spent hundreds of nights in a tent at backcountry sites across Alaska. I am an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming and have taken students to Quartz Lake for the last five years.
My primary interest lies in cultural transitions and diet spanning the first Alaskans to the late Holocene. I am particularly interested in the development of different cooking traditions, and I am working with local descendant communities to conduct cooking experiments to help reconstruct cooking practices through time in central Alaska. I use isotopic chemistry and evidence from fieldwork to reconstruct culture and diet through time. I have published numerous articles on Alaskan archaeology in venues such as American Antiquity, Paleoamerica, Alaska Journal of Anthropology, and Quaternary Science Reports.
Dr. Joshua Reuther
Curator, University of Alaska Museum of the North
I am trained as an archaeologist with a strong emphasis on archaeological sciences and geosciences. I highly value interdisciplinary research within archaeology and anthropology, and working across traditionally non-archaeologically and non-anthropologically disciplinary frameworks. I am also grateful to be involved in several collaborative projects working with members of both urban and rural communities to understand the history and prehistory and development of landscapes in their regions. I spent several years working for a private cultural resources management firm in Alaska as a Senior Project Archaeologist and Lab Manager before joining the UAF Anthropology faculty, which provided me a background in cultural and heritage resource laws and practices.
My recent research has primarily focused on understanding changes in human technological, settlement, and subsistence systems within local ecological and environmental contexts in subarctic and arctic settings. I currently serve as a geoarchaeologist on the Upward Sun River Site and Quartz Lake-Shaw Creek Multidisciplinary Projects; both projects emphasize understanding changes in human-environment interactions over the last 14,000 years in the middle Tanana Valley in interior Alaska.
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