Publications

Peer-reviewed

in review. Invited Chapter: C. Funk, B. Hornbeck, A. Taivalkoski. Dimensions of Complexity in the Rat Islands, Alaska, in Archaeology of Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America, edited by Christina Sampson. University Press of Florida.

2020. C. Funk and D. Corbett. Qax^un Settlement on Raw Material Source Area (RAT-162), Little Sitkin Island, Western Aleutians, Alaska. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 18(2):82-92.

2020. Japan’s World War II on Kiska Island: Previously Undocumented Features on the Vega Bay Coastline. C. Funk, D. Corbett, H. Harmsen, and S. Goranson. Arctic Anthropology 57(2).

2019. Fitzhugh, B., C. Funk, and J. Bourgeois. Volcanoes and Settlement in the North Pacific: Late Holocene Settlement Patterns in the Western Aleutians and Kuril Islands, in TephroArchaeology in the North Pacific, edited by Gina L. Barnes and Soda Tsutomu, pp. 76-96. Archaeopress, Summertown, Oxford.

2018. C. Funk. Ethno-ornithology in the Rat Islands: Prehistoric Aleut Relationships with Birds in the Western Aleutians, Alaska. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 51:144-158.

2011. C. Funk. Rat Islands Archaeological Research 2003 and 2009: Toward an Understanding of Regional Culture and Environmental Histories. Arctic Anthropology 48(2):25-51.

Reports

2014. C. Funk. Report: Preliminary Report for ARPA Permit No. (none given): Kiska Island 2014 Field Research. Report on file at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage Office, AK.

2009. C. Funk. Report: Rats and Birds: Tracking Ecological Change with Evidence from Prehistoric to Historic Aleut Village Midden Test Excavations. Report on file at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage Office, AK.

2008. C. Funk. Report: Birds and Mammals from the 2003 Test of Features 2 and 6 at RAT-00081 on Rat Island, AK: Part 2 – Species Level Analysis. Report on file at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage Office, AK.

2006. C. Funk. Report: Birds and Mammals from the 2003 Test of Features 2 and 6 at RAT-00081 on Rat Island, AK. Report on file at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage Office, AK.

Select Presentations

2019. C. Funk, D. Corbett, N. Bigelow, and N. Misarti. “Gardens in the Aleutian Islands – Landscape Management by Unangan/Unangas Ancestors.” Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.

2018. C. Funk. Comparing narratives and middens to learn about Qax^un relationships with birds in the Rat Islands, western Aleutians. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK.

2017. C. Funk, D. Corbett, and B. Hoffman. Multigenerational, Multipurpose Landscapes and Seascapes in the Western Aleutian Islands. Poster presented at the 82st Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, B.C.

2017. J. Howard, C. Funk, D. Corbett, B. Hoffman, and A. Taivalkoski. Cut Marks on Prehistoric Alcidae Tibiotarsi in of the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Paper to be presented at the 82st Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, B.C.

2017. C. Funk, D. West, C. Lefèvre, K. Brunner. Debra Garland Corbett: Alaskan Archaeologist. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, AK.

2016. A. Taivalkoski, C. Funk, D. Corbett, and B. Hoffman. Avian Skeletal Part Representation at KIS-050. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL.

2016. J. Howard, C. Funk, D. Corbett, and B. Hoffman. Bone Tools of the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Aleut Identity, Tool Technology, Subsistence, and Interaction with Seascape. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL.

2015. B. Hornbeck, C. Funk, B.W. Hoffman, N.H. Bigelow, and D. Corbett. Shaping identities through physical and cognitive landscape modifications in the Rat Islands, AK. Poster presented at the 80th Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.

2015. C. Funk, N.H. Bigelow, D. Corbett, B.W.  Hoffman, N. Misarti, and S.A. Wood. Human and Environmental Histories of the Rat Islands, Western Aleutians, Alaska: The 2014-2015 Research Season. Poster presented at the 80th Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.

2015. D. Corbett and C. Funk. The Aleutian Islands Working Group Research Note Blog. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association 42nd Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK.

2014. C. Funk and B. Hornbeck. Aleut Travel Paths in the Waters of the Rat Islands, Western Aleutians, Alaska. Poster presented at the 79th Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014. J. Howard and C. Funk. Bone Tools of the Rat Islands. Poster presented at the 79th Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014. B. Fitzhugh and C. Funk. Sustainability and Settlement: A comparative analysis of Late Holocene settlement patterns in the Aleutians and Kuril Islands. Paper to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

Dissertations

2020. B. Hornbeck. “Unangax^ Monumentality: Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Transformations of the Rat Islands, Alaska, c. 4,000 BP to 1,000 BP.” Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo.

2020. A. Taivalkoski. “Technological Choice and Human Animal Relationships: A Bird’s Eye View from the Rat Islands, Alaska.” Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo.

Researching human and environmental intersections in the Aleutian Islands.