Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way

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.