Publications & Resources
Selected Publications
Krus, Anthony M., Lauren E. Y. Norman, Sarah L. Unkel, Justin Tackney, Anne M. Jensen, Dennis H. O’Rourke. (Submitted). Birnirk-Thule social relationships reexamined in light of a context-appropriate chronology for the Alaska North Slope.
Lauren E. Y. Norman, Claire Alix, Owen K. Mason, Dennis O’Rourke. (2025). Variations on a theme: Comparison of precolonial Iñupiaq cultural landscapes through subsistence strategies at Cape Espenberg, Alaska. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2025.2537079.
Alix, Claire, Lauren E. Y. Norman, Anthony Krus, Juliette Taieb, Shelby Anderson, Dennis O’Rourke, and Owen K. Mason. (2025). The Birnirk to Thule transition as viewed from radiocarbon and tree-ring dating within two adjacent houses at Cape Espenberg, Northwest Alaska. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.21.
Unkel, Sarah L., Lauren E. Y. Norman, Justin Tackney, Anthony M. Krus, Anne E. Jensen, Claire Alix, Owen Mason, and Dennis O’Rourke. (2022). Genetic analysis of Birnirk Inuit from the Alaskan North Slope. Arctic 75(1): 121-132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27211978.
Norman, Lauren E. Y., and Kelly A Eldridge. (2022). Architecture anchors: The built environment of the Thule Inuit. In More Than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment, edited by Danielle Macdonald and Brian Andrews, pp. 159-217. University of Florida Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2t8b7bc.13.
Norman, Lauren E. Y., Christopher E. Barrett, Sarah Unkel, Anne M. Jensen, Dennis H. O’Rourke, and Jennifer Raff. (2022). Ethical aspects of community-based paleogenomics research using museum samples. In Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the 21st Century, edited by Maria M. Martinez, Eric Sears, and Lauren Sieg, pp. 37-46. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 54. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.19436615.
Reuther, Joshua D., Scott Shirar, Owen K. Mason, Shelby Anderson, Joan B. Coltrain, Adam Freeburg, Peter M. Bowers, Claire Alix, Christyann M. Darwent, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. (2021). Marine reservoir effects in seal (Phocidae) bones in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, northwestern Alaska. Radiocarbon 63(1): 301-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.127 .
O’Rourke, Dennis H., Justin Tackney, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. (2021). An Arctic lens for the American migration: Integrating genomics, archaeology, and paleoecology. In Human Migration: Biocultural Perspectives, edited by Lourdes Munoz Moreno and Michael H. Crawford. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190945961.003.0005.
Vanlandeghem, Marine, Bruno C. Desachy, Tammy Y. Buonasera, Lauren E. Y. Norman, Isabelle Théry-Parisot, Alain Carré, Christopher Petit, Michelle Elliott, and Claire Alix. (2020). Ancient arctic pyro-technologies: Experimental fires to document the impact of animal origin fuels on wood combustion. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 33: 102414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102414.
Braymer-Hayes, Katelyn, Shelby Anderson, Claire Alix, Christyann M. Darwent, John Darwent, Owen Mason, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. (2020). Studying pre-contact gendered use of space in the Arctic: Spatial analysis of ceramics in northwestern Alaska. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 58: 101165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101165.
Norman, Lauren E. Y. (2018). Comparing the fill and floor: Using a taphonomic framework to identify occupational histories at a collapsed semi-subterranean feature in northwest Alaska. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 28: 782-792. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2704.
Norman, Lauren E. Y. (2018). Ethnohistoric documents as analogical tools: A case study from northwest Alaska. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 51: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.004.
Alix, Claire, Owen K. Mason, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. (2018). Whales, wood, and baleen in northwestern Alaska: Reflection on whaling through wood and boat technology at the Rising Whale site. In Whale on the Rock II, edited by Sang-Mog Lee, pp. 39-66. Ulsan Petroglyph Museum. https://hal.science/hal-02135720/.
Norman, Lauren E. Y., T. Max Friesen, Claire Alix, Michael J. E. O’Rourke, and Owen K. Mason. (2017). An early Inupiaq occupation: Observations on a Thule house from Cape Espenberg, Alaska. Open Archaeology 3: 17-48. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2017-0002.
Friesen, T. Max, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. (2016). The Pembroke Site: Thule Inuit Migration on Southern Victoria Island. Arctic 69(1):1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4545.
Norman, Lauren, and T. Max Friesen. (2010). Thule fishing revisited: The economic importance of fish at the Pembroke and Bell sites, Victoria Island, Nunavut. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography 110(2): 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2010.10669511.
Resources
- Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project (VZAP): 3D comparative osteology models.
- John Rochester's Flickr: Photos of many disarticulated animal skeletons.
- Virtual Curation Laboratory (Zooarchaeology): 3D models comparative models of individual bones.
- Aves 3D: 3D models of bird skeletal morphology.
- ArchéoZoothèque: Drawings and photos of various animal skeletons, some 'exploded'.
- Bison bones: Labelled images of individual bison bones. Click through all three pages for helpful images that can be downloaded.
- Avian Osteology: Bird bone identification guide (organized synoptically) from the Royal BC Museum.
- Bone ID: Browse photos of individual elements of many North American species.
- PSU Fish Comparative Photos: Photographs of Pacific Northwest fish skeletal elements.
- Anthro Illustrated: Free digital illustrations showcasing a variety of anthropologists doing their work.
- Iñupiaq Online: Iñupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuniŋit | North Slope Iñupiaq to English Dictionary.
- Native Land Digital: Digital map of Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties. Find out whose land you are on.
- ADVANCEGeo Partnership provides resources and workshops to improve workplace climates in the sciences.
- ADVANCEing FieldSafety works towards creating safe field sites through their free online course, debrief workshops, and tool kit resources.
- A Field Guide to Graduate School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum by Jessica McCrory Calarco (2020). Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691201092. Buy local!
- Applying: Advice on writing a personal statement for graduate school by Eve Ewing, Margaret Echelbarger, and Heba Gowayed (from Anna Moyer, University of Alabama).
- Advice on preparing for the job market or leaving academia from The Professor Is In (or Out).
- Preparing a conference talk by Jessica Calarco.
- Building a better poster? What makes a good research poster by Colleen Flaherty
If you have any resources to add or come across a broken link, please email Dr. Norman.