Mammoths and microblades: digging up ancient culture in Interior Alaska
Yu Hirasawa, a PhD student at Keio University in Tokyo, sifts through dirt at the Swan Point archaeological site with Haley Huff, a student from the University of Alaska Anchorage. June 7, 2013
Photo by Loren Holmes with the Alaska Dispatch.
On a small hill surrounded by boggy muskeg in the Tanana River Valley, prehistoric skin scrapers made of schist, polished slate tools and glass beads were uncovered in the last week.
Based on the design of the tools and the way the animals were butchered, it appears to be an Athabascan campsite from the turn of the 20th century.
Parthasarathy remembered: Friends, colleagues to gather June 14
A memorial for Professor Emeritus of Physics Raghaviyengar “Sardi” Parthasarathy will take place Friday, June 14 in the Elvey Globe Room. The event will begin at 3 p.m.
Parthasarathy joined the Geophysical Institute in 1958 and was awarded emeritus status in 1985. The scientist died March 7, 2012 in Laurel, Maryland at the age of 82.
GI Scientist: Arctic sea ice needs better forecasts
