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Brooks Range, Alaska

ABOUT ME

Alaskan Archaeologist

Connecting our knowledge of the present with our knowledge of the past has always fascinated me. I began my career in archaeology at a 10,000-year-old hunting camp in Alaska, near the Gerstle River, and just two hours from where I grew up. Six weeks of camping, freeze dried food, and hard digging later, I had fallen in love with the science of the past.

Though I have excavated at sites around the globe, I keep coming back to central Alaska where I grew up. Northern Dene have thrived in this dramatic landscape for thousands of years. They overcame challenges related to a changing environment and shifting social dynamics in unique ways that archaeologists have only recently come to appreciate. I believe that unraveling these complex strategies presents a puzzle that can provide deeper insight into human behavior throughout our species' history.
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Tanana Valley, 2021

Interested in working with Bree in Alaska?
  • Information about the Summer 2023 field school is available here
  • Bree is currently accepting MA and PhD students to start in Fall 2023. Information about the graduate program at the University of Wyoming is here

PROJECTS

Fieldwork

Since my field school at Gerstle River more than a decade ago, I have been lucky enough to travel the world to excavate sites and lead projects that span our species' history and crisscross the globe.
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Excavations at Clearview (XMH-1303)

I have led excavations at this late Holocene hunting camp for the last three summers with the Center for the Environmental Management of Military Lands. We found over 5000 artifacts that I have analyzed with Senna Catenacci, an undergraduate research mentee, at the University of Michigan.
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Kodiak, Alaska
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