Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way

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 "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This session presents preliminary results from a long-term collaboration between the village of Togiak, Ak and Bates College, a research project grounded in Indigenous and ‘Research Sovereignty’ models. The contemporary village of Togiak, and the old village site, Temyiq Tuyuryaq (Old Togiak), together represent a multigenerational Yup’ik village in northern Bristol Bay, Alaska. Temyiq Tuyuryaq represents an extensive village site consisting of more than 120 traditional style surface structures including storage features and both ena and qasqiq (womens and mens houses). The village has persisted over a temporal landscape of more than 1600 years, engaging with and experiencing colonial entanglements and impacts that have resulted in the current village of Togiak, a community of more than 800. This session explores cultural continuities, changes, and adaptations as a result of persistence throughout multiple generations. All research in this session rely on the Spiderweb Conceptual Model (see L. Lambert) and intersect with a wide range of inquiry including isotope studies, the importance and impacts of community-based collaboration, geochemical, biochemical and spatial analyses, and epigenetics.

Other Keywords
arctic • Indigenous • Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: XRF/pXRF • Archaeometry & Materials Analysis • Research Sovereignty • Salmon Isotope • Epigenetics • Youth Collaboration • Environmental Microbiome

Geographic Keywords
Alberta (State / Territory) • Yukon Territory (State / Territory) • British Columbia (State / Territory) • Alaska (State / Territory) • Saskatchewan (State / Territory) • Manitoba (State / Territory) • Canada (Country) • Northwest Territories (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • North America: Arctic and Subarctic

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  • The Connections within Togiak: An Attempt to Further Understand Colonial Impacts on a Multigenerational Village (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Marion.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The purpose of this project is to explore the collaborative arch within the project's spider work framework. Everything in life is interwoven: where one is born has lasting effects on cultural norms, education, healthcare, socio-economic status, social-status, support networks, as well as physical environment. Creating a united...

  • Cultural Identity, Subsistence, and the Potential for Epigenetic Research in Togiak, Alaska (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Precious Johnson. April Hill.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contemporary village of Togiak, and the old village site, Temyiq Tuyuryaq (Old Togiak), together represent a multigenerational Yup’ik village in northern Bristol Bay, Alaska (K. Barnett 2018). Cultural identity has been, and continues to be, heavily influenced by subsistence. Throughout the past 1300 years the region has...

  • E-Week: Youth Collaboration within an Indigenous Framework (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Willky Joseph. Sofie Sogaard.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community driven approaches to archaeological research have provided the discipline with new and creative opportunities for engagement and dialogue. This poster explores the benefits of community engagement in the context of the k-12 classroom as part of a the NSF funded research,Temyiq Tuyuryaq; a collaborative archaeology the...

  • Governing Powers: Conceptualizing Research Sovereignty in Archaeology (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen Barnett.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the past decade there have been significant dialogue and debate surrounding Indigenous Archaeology and the perceived challenges of designing and carrying out research. Indigenous approaches demand an individualized place-based approach, eluding the ability to establish a specific methodology. This can result in...

  • Identification and Classification of the Environmental Microbiome of the Temyiq Tuyuryaq (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Huftalen. Colleen O'Loughlin.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This pilot study aims to culture and monitor bacterial species from a specific range of archaeological samples from Temyiq Tuyuryaq, a multigenerational village in northern Bristol Bay, Alaska. Goals of this study are to test our ability to identify variability and consistency of the microbial species present in conditions of...

  • Micro-residues: Developing a Geochemical Baseline for Archaeological Analysis at Temyiq Tuyuryaq (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mari Sato.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geochemical analysis of anthropomorphic sediments in a household context have contributed to our understanding of ‘home-making’ including spatial organization and use of residential space (e.g. Frink and Goodale). Geochemical signatures can identify micro-residues such as calcium and phosphorous, suggesting activities that have...

  • Temporal Studies of Salmon Isotopes at Temyiq Tuyuryaq (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eliot Chalfin-Smith. Beverly Johnson.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research is part of a larger collaboration with the Togiak community to excavate, analyze, and interpret the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of archaeological salmon bones excavated from the Temyiq Tuyuryaq site. Sources of carbon, fueling the base of the food web and the trophic level of the salmon, are...

  • Yup’ik Tool Use at Temyiq Tuyuryak—Indigenous Approaches to Artifact Analysis (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dougless Skinner.

    This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tool analysis is a foundational component of archaeological research and site interpretation. Methods for analysis include a rigorous set of categories including, but not limited to, raw material type, tool type, use-wear, retouch, etc. Although these categories are informative, telling us about a specific set of criteria and...