Joe Keeney

Joe Keeney

About Joe

Joe Keeney, National Park Service archaeologist: “My name is Joe Keeney, I’m an archaeologist with the National Park Service for Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and Yukon Charley National Park and preserve and I’m also a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.”

Joe excavated the Matcharak Peninsula Site, an ancient hunting camp in the Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve. “Up until the point that the Matcharak Peninsula Site was found, you could essentially fit all the identifiable materials from these Northern Archaic sites into a shoebox,” he said; Northern Archaic artifacts were so rare. “That makes this a very unique site that has such good preservation.”

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