Video: Northern Alaska Rock Art

Petroglyphs are exceptionally rare in Interior and Northern Alaska. Archeologists found boulders adorned with petroglyphs at three different lakefront sites in what is now the Noatak National Preserve in Northwest Alaska. A team from the University of Alaska’s Museum of the North and the National Park Service documented the petroglyphs using sketches and tracings. Museum staff members Scott Shirar, research archaeologist, and Mareca Guthrie, fine arts collection manager, were among the crew that visited the village sites.

Watch “Northern Rock Art,” a video made by the Museum of the North, to learn more about the project.

Click on the image above to view the video on YouTube.

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Arctic Archeology, (National Park Service)

High Alpine Lakeside Villages and Associated Rock Art in the Brooks Range (National Park Service)