Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Dr. Anna Kerttula has served fifteen years as program officer for the NSF Arctic Social Science Program, and has had a transformative impact upon the northern research community and northern science and scholarship. Her encouragement of early career researchers, indigenous scholars and organizations, international and interdisciplinary initiatives, and cutting edge innovation has had lasting impact on the circumpolar north. This session takes her retirement from NSF as an opportunity to recognize and honor her work and contributions, and papers will reflect her impact upon early career professionals and long established researchers. We anticipate publication of selected papers in Arctic Anthropology.

Other Keywords
arctic • Indigenous • historical ecology • Coastal and Island Archaeology  • Environment and Climate  • Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology • Political economy • Fishing • Historical Archaeology • Zooarchaeology

Geographic Keywords
Isle of Man (Country) • Faroe Islands (Country) • Department of Martinique (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Department of Guadeloupe (Country) • Cayman Islands (Country) • Antigua and Barbuda (Country) • Turks and Caicos Islands (Country) • Bermuda (Country) • Belize (Country)

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  • Anna and the Sea: Reflections on Anna Kerttula's Influence on a Generation of North Pacific Archaeology (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Fitzhugh. Catherine West. Sven Haakanson.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in Alaska and the broader North Pacific Rim has revealed a long and complex history of human occupation, dynamic human-environmental interactions, and – above all - underscores the relevance of archaeology to people living across the region today. These developments span the nearly two decades of Dr....

  • Arctic Horizons: Forging Priorities for Arctic Social Sciences and NSF Funding (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelby Anderson. Colleen Strawhacker. Aaron Presnall. Arctic Horizons Steering Committee.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Arctic Horizons – a multi-institution collaboration funded through NSF's Arctic Social Science program – brought together the Arctic social science research community to reassess goals, potentials, and needs affecting the diverse disciplinary and transdisciplinary currents of social science research in the circumpolar North...

  • The Book Antler on the Sea and Community Perspectives from Sireniki, Anna’s Home Village in Chukotka, Russia (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sveta Yamin-Pasternak. Igor Pasternak.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nearly three decades after her dissertation fieldwork in the village of Sireniki, which she conducted in the late Soviet period, anthropologist Anna Kerttula de Echave continues to be closely entangled within the life and social relationships of the community. In many Sireniki households, Anna’s book 'Antler on the Sea: the...

  • Clearing the Fog: Contributions to Central Aleutian Island Archaeology (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Hanson.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological survey and excavation on Adak Island, Aleutian archipelago, Alaska were funded by NSF through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The chance NSF and Anna Kerttula took on a small project in a remote location with a small crew had an unexpected and significant effect on the understanding of...

  • Community-Based and Collaborative Archaeology in South Greenland: Past, Present, Future (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Turley. Aká Bendtsen.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are increasingly engaging in community-based and collaborative approaches to develop frameworks for co-production of knowledge and its dissemination. Encouraging collaborative frameworks and community engagement has been a key element of the NSF Arctic Social Sciences Program under Anna Kerttula's leadership....

  • EAGERs and RAPIDs – Small Grants with Big Outcomes at Surtshellir Cave, Iceland (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Smith.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anna Kerttula's stewardship of NSF's Arctic Social Sciences program not only expanded opportunities for large-scale collaborative research projects in the North, but also increased opportunities for supporting smaller "high risk" and "time-sensitive" projects through the EAGER and RAPID programs. These smaller projects,...

  • Expanding Archaeological Research in Mývatnssveit: Conservation, Politics, and Modernity (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Hicks.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in the Mývatn region of northern Iceland contributed the first regional-scale interdisciplinary archaeological program to Icelandic archaeology (e.g. Lucas 2009, McGovern et al. 2007). Until recently the regional project focused chiefly on the settlement period (beginning in the late 9th century)...

  • The Human Experience of Social Transformations in the North Atlantic and US Southwest (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Hegmon. Matthew Peeples.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This paper instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the North Atlantic and the US Southwest....

  • Norse Textiles at the Western Edge of the North Atlantic. (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Smith.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anna Kertulla’s vision of Arctic research incorporated a desire to see female scholars succeed and work on issues pertaining to women’s lives in the North. Three NSF-funded grants from Arctic Social Sciences, focusing on textiles as women’s production, used over 1500 textiles from Iceland, Greenland, the Faroes, and Scotland...

  • Rescue Excavations at a Medieval Fishing Station in Western Iceland (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Feeley.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2008 an eroding midden along Iceland’s western coast was discovered to be part of a large 15th century commercial fishing station - the first of its kind to be found in Iceland. The site was clearly endangered by coastal erosion and with support from the National Science Foundation rescue excavations were carried out over...

  • Synthesis of Social-Ecological Change in the North Atlantic and US Southwest (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Nelson. Thomas McGovern.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anna Kerttula had the vision and commitment to support an experiment: two interdisciplinary research teams working in dramatically different settings, striving to find valuable insights from cross-region, cross-case studies. One team from the North Atlantic islands (NABO) and another from the US Southwest (LTVTP) combined...

  • Transdisciplinary Analysis of Marine Mammal Use in the Norse North Atlantic and Subarctic (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Vicki Szabo. Brenna Frasier. Michael Buckley. Thomas McGovern. Ingrid Mainland.

    This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This ongoing project, funded in 2015 by Anna Kerttula and the Arctic Social Sciences Program, uses historical, literary, aDNA, ZooMS, and archaeological data to identify patterns in marine mammal exploitation across the North Atlantic and Subarctic from ca. 800 -1800 CE. With over 230 samples of archaeological whale bone...