Handaxes and Biface Technology
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Haakanson, Jr., Sven David Amy F. Steffian Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK, USA
Basic Biographical Information Sven Haakanson, Jr. is a Native Alaskan archaeologist, museum professional, and artist. He was born in Kodiak and grew up in the native village of Old Harbor, which is a rural fishing community on Alaska’s Kodiak Island. After earning his high school diploma from Anchorage’s Bartlett High School (1985), he attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1985–1992). Here he studied English and education and discovered anthropology in classes with his mentor Dr. Lydia Black. A year teaching English in Magadan helped him develop fluency in Russian. Volunteering on archaeological projects in the Kodiak Archipelago fed his interests in history, technology, and native arts. In 1988, Haakanson attended the Sixth Inuit Studies Conference in Copenhagen, an opportunity that shaped his career. Listening to Dr. Black speak about his ancestral culture on the opposite side of the globe motivated Haakanson to continue his studies. In the fall of 1992, he entered Harvard University’s graduate program in anthropology. During graduate school he taught at Vermont’s Center for Northern Studies (1995) and joined archaeological surveys in
Siberia led by Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh (1994–1997). Working with Fitzhugh led to two years of fieldwork on his own with the Nenets Reindeer Herders in the Yamal Peninsula, Russia (1996–1997), and a doctoral dissertation on the ethnoarchaeology of Nenets settlement patterns (Haakanson 2000, 2001). It was the first study of its kind in Siberia. After completing his Ph.D., Haakanson returned to Kodiak to lead the newly established Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository, a tribal heritage center dedicated to preserving and sharing the culture of the Alutiiq people. At the museum he works to reawaken Alutiiq traditions through research and educational programs that connect people to collections (Haakanson 2004, 2007). In 2007 he received a McArthur Foundation fellowship. In 2013, Haakanson accepted a joint appointment to the University of Washington’s Burke Museum and Department of Anthropology Haakanson’s service to cultural and scientific organizations includes appointments to the Alaska State Council for the Arts, Alaska Humanities Forum, Alaska Native Science Commission, First Alaskan Institute, Museums Alaska, Alaska Native Heritage Center, Polar Research Board, and the Western Museums Association.
Major Accomplishments Haakanson’s professional life developed in the decade following the passage of NAGPRA, at
C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2, # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
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Haakanson, Jr., Sven David, Fig. 1 Sven Haakanson on survey at Cape Alitak, 2010 (Photograph by Patrick Saltonstall, Cape Alitak Archaeological Survey Collection, Alutiiq Museum (AM688))
a time when the Alutiiq heritage movement was gaining momentum. As the director of a
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