Dr. Robert E. Ackerman
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professor
Archaeology
Robert E. Ackerman is an archaeologist with research interest in the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Asia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1961). Research visits have been made to Russia, Japan, Korea, and China to attend scientific conferences and to study archaeological collections from the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic sites. His specific research interests include the earliest evidence for the movement of hunter-gatherers into coastal and interior regions of northeast Asia and Alaska, late Pleistocene and early Holocene cultural adaptation, and further definition of the cultural phases of Arctic and subarctic prehistory. He is currently editing a book entitled Prehistoric Routes to the New World-Northeast Asia to South America to be published by Washington State University Press, and is working on a monograph dealing with the prehistory of southwestern Alaska. Dr. Ackerman received the Career Achievement Award from the Alaska Anthropological Association in April 1999.
Courses
Great Discoveries in Archaeology (ANTH 130); Introduction to Archaeology (ANTH 230); Old World Civilizations (ANTH 336); Prehistory of the Northwest Coast (ANTH 540); Prehistory of Alaska and Eastern Siberia (ANTH 542)
Representative Publications
1998 Early Maritime Traditions in the Bering, Chukchi and East Siberian Seas. Arctic Anthropology 35:247-262.
1997 (with D. Georgina, J. Mastrogiuseppe and A. Ruter). The Archaeology of Lime Hills Cave, Southwestern Alaska: A Multidisciplinary Approach. In Program and Abstracts of Beringian Paleoenvironments Workshop. Florissant, Colorado, September 20-23.
1996 Early Maritime Culture Complexes of the Northern Northwest Coast. In Early Human Occupation in British Columbia, edited by R. L. Carlson and L. D. Bona, pp. 123-132. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver.
1996 Ground Hog Bay 2. In American Beginnings: Prehistory and Paleoecology of Berengia, edited by F. H. West, pp. 424-430. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
1996 Kuskokswim Drainage (Introduction, Spein Mountain, Nukluk Mountain, Ilnuk Site, Lime Hills Cave 1). In American Beginnings: Prehistory and Paleoecology of Berengia, edited by F. H. West, Chapter 10, pp. 451-477.
1996 Bluefish Caves. In American Beginnings: Prehistory and Paleoecology of Berengia, edited by F. H. West, pp. 511-513. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Current Students
Ian Buvit, Ph.D.
Neal Endacott, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Horton, Ph.D.
Kim Kwarsick, M.A.
German Loffler, M.A.
Lyle Nakonechny, Ph.D.
Karisa Terry, Ph.D.
College
Hall 314
509.335.4426
rackerma@mail.wsu.edu
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