RICHARD KNECHT, Ph. D
Consulting Archaeologist
Email:
rknecht@nalaquq.comTelephone
(907) 310-0908Mailing Address
PO Box 69, Quinhagak, AK 99655ABOUT
Rick Knecht has been conducting archaeological research in Alaska since 1983. He lived and worked on the Kodiak and Aleutian Archipelagos and was founding director of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository on Kodiak and the Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen and has co-directed the Nunalleq Archaeological Project in Quinhagak, Alaska since 2009 and serves as Acting Director of the Nunalleq Museum. He currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and is working on analysis of pre-contact Yup’ik material culture from the Nunalleq site.