Picture of David Yesner

Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Connecticut

M.A., University of Connecticut, Connecticut

B.A., Cornell University, New York

afdry@uaa.alaska.edu

Dr. David Yesner is one of the Professors of Anthropology here at UAA.  Having co-authored Humans at the End of the Ice Age, a study of the worldwide changes in human cultures associated with warming climates and with over 100 articles and book chapters written focusing on the archaeology and anthropology of the peoples of Alaska and the circumpolar region, the Russian Far East and the Southern Cone (Tierra del Fuego), Dr. Yesner is an accomplished author in his field.  Previously doing research in the Northeastern United States and in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean south of Turkey, he is currently conducting studies three major research sites: the 12,000-year-old Broken Mammoth site near Delta Junction, Alaska, the Knik Historic Town site near Wasilla, Alaska and the Boisman 2 site near Vladivostok, Russia.  Dr. Yesner is currently the Chair of the Beringia Working Group of the International Quaternary Association (INQUA) and a councilor for archaeology of  the American Quaternary Association (AMQUA).  He is currently President of the Cornell Club of Alaska, and a board member of the Alaska Museum of Natural History in Eagle River.  He is a past editor of the Newsletter of the Alaska Anthropological Association, an associate editor of the Newsletter of the Society for Archaeological Sciences, and book review editor for Northeastern Anthropology.  He was recently Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, and previously received the Becker Lectureship at Cornell University.  You can see Dr. Yesner's web site by clicking HERE. 

Humans at the End of the Ice Age   
Cover of Humans at the End of the Ice Age     Humans at the End of the Ice Age: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition documents the worldwide changes in human cultures associated with the warming climates, melting ice sheets, major human migrations, and changing life ways at the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) period.  As co-editor of the volume, Dr. Yesner has authored a summary of this important transitional period for North America as a whole.  In his own article in the volume, he also summarizes the early archaeological record for eastern Beringia (Alaska and the Yukon) and the environmental context within which it developed.   

Arctic Anthropology Vol. 35, No. 1, 1998   
Cover of Arctic Anthropology Vol. 35, No. 1, 1998     Arctic Anthropology is an international journal devoted to the study of Old and New World northern cultures and peoples. Archaeology, ethnology, physical anthropology, and related disciplines are represented, with emphasis on: studies of specific cultures of the arctic.  This issue features Dr. Douglas Veltre, Dr. David Yesner , and Dr. William Workman from UAA's Anthropology Department.