Douglas D. Anderson
Professor and Director, Laboratory for
Circumpolar Studies
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests
Arctic ethnology and archaeology, especially
of northwestern Alaska; Southeast Asian prehistory;
settlement archaeology; Nations within States;
Ethnonationalism. Areas: Alaska, Native North America, Thailand.

I am currently completing a monograph on proto and early historic northwestern Alaska; and am writing on the ethnography of the Selawik River Inupiat. I am also researching the archaeology of mid-Holocene Southeast Asia, focusing on the development of early coastal peoples.

Selected Publications

The Denbigh Flint Complex in Northwestern Alaska: New insights from Old Data (forthcoming in Alaska Journal of Anthropology).

New Evidence for Southeast Asian Pleistocene Foraging Economies: Faunal Remains from the Early Levels of Lang Rongrien Rockshelter, Krabi, Thailand (co-authored with Karen Mudar, forthcoming in Asian Perspectives).

The Use of Caves in Peninsular Thailand in the late Pleistocene and Early and Middle Holocene. Asian Perspectives 44(1): 137-153, 2005.

Kuuvangmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Twentieth Century . Douglas D. Anderson, Wanni W. Anderson, Ray Bane, Richard K. Nelson, and Nita Sheldon Towarak. Washington D.C.: National Park Service, Department of Interior, 1998.

Cave Archaeology in Southeast Asia. Geoarchaeology 12(6):607-638, 1997.

Lang Rongrien Rockshelter: A Pleistocene-Early Holocene Archaeological Site from Krabi, Southwestern Thailand (University Museum Monographs, University of Pennsylvania), 1990.

Onion Portage: The Archaeology of a Stratified Site from the Kobuk River, Northwest Alaska. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 22(1-2). Fairbanks, 1988.

Courses Taught