Dr RICK KNECHT

Dr RICK KNECHT The University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences Dr RICK KNECHT Senior Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 273699 pref Department of Archaeology School of Geosciences University of Aberdeen St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road Aberdeen, AB24 3UF Scotland, UK

Senior Lecturer

BA (Michigan), MA, PhD (Bryn Mawr)

Dr RICK KNECHT

Personal Details

Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273699
Email: r.knecht@abdn.ac.uk
Address: Department of Archaeology
School of Geosciences
University of Aberdeen
St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road
Aberdeen, AB24 3UF
Scotland, UK
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Biography

BA, Anthropology (Hons), Michigan State University, 1981. MA, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1985. Thesis title: Nunakhaknak; Koniag Society on the Russian Frontier. PhD, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1995. Dissertation title: The Late Prehistory of the Alutiiq People; Culture Change on the Kodiak Archipelago From 1200-1750 A.D.  Founding Director of Alutiiq Culture Center in Kodiak, Alaska, 1991. Founding Director of Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak Alaska, 1995.  Founding Director of Museum of the Aleutians, Unalaska, Alaska, 1999.  Ethnographer and Director of Oral History Program, Bureau of Arts and Culture, Republic of Palau, Micronesia, 2004-2005.  Academic Program Head and Assistant Professor, Department of Alaska Native and Rural Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005-2008.


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Regional Research Interests

Aleutian Islands

Nunivak Island and Bering Sea

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Kodiak Archipelago and Gulf of Alaska

Canadian Arctic

Greenland

Palau and Micronesia


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Themes

Indigneous approaches to archaeology

Community-based archaeological research and cultural preservation

Prehistoric adaptations to climate change

Inuit/Eskimo origins and early prehistory

Ethnohistory and historic contact

Museum research and public outreach


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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

  • Britton, KH., Knecht, R., Nehlich, O., Hillerdal, C., Davis, RS. & Richards, MP. (in press). 'Maritime adaptations and dietary variation in prehistoric Western Alaska: Stable isotope analysis of permafrost-preserved human hair'. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22284
  • Price, N. & Knecht, R. (2012). 'Peleliu 1944: the archaeology of a South Pacific D-Day'. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, vol 7, no. 1, pp. 5-48.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1179/157407812X13245464933786
  • Knecht, R. & Davis, RS. (2010). 'Continuity and Change in the Eastern Aleutian archaeological sequence'. Human Biology, vol 82, no. 5-6, 3, pp. 507-524.
  • Knecht, R. (2009). 'Hair methylmercury levels of Aleutian Islands mummies, Alaska'. Environmental Research, vol 109, no. 3, pp. 281-286.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.11.004
  • Knecht, R. & Davis, R. (2008). 'The Amaknak Bridge Site: Cultural Change and the Neoglacial in the Eastern Aleutians'. Arctic Anthropology, vol 45, no. 1, pp. 61-78.
    [Online] DOI: 10.3368/aa.45.1.61

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceedings

  • Knecht, R. (in press). 'First Maritime Cultures of the Aleutians'. in O Mason & M Friesen (eds), Handbook of Arctic Archaeology. Oxford University Press.

Books and Reports

Commissioned Reports

  • Knecht, R., Price, N. & Lindsay, GJ. 'WWII Battlefield Report of Peleliu Island, Peleliu State, Republic of Palau'. Unknown Publisher.

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