Fitzhugh, William

Senior Scientist, Curator of North American Archaeology and Director, Arctic Studies Center

Positions

Curator/Director Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History 1970 -

Archeology and ethnology of northern Canada and United States, circumpolar regions, and Mongolia; Arctic material culture; Arctic social science policy; cultural ecology of the North; ethnographic and prehistoric maritime adaptations; culture and climatology

Geographic Focus

Canada Country
Labrador-Quebec Geographic Region
Mongolia Country
Newfoundland State or Province
Russian Federation Country

education and training

awards and honors

William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books, conferred by Polar Libraries Colloquy (Northern Libraries Colloquy), 2018

selected publications

article
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Loring, Stephen. 2022. "A Note on Shell Island-1 (GcBi-11) and Some Thoughts on the Labrador Ramah Chert Trade." Provincial Archaeology Office 2021 Archaeology Review, 20, 74–80. St. John's Newfoundland: Newfoundland Provincial Archaeology Office. 2022
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2021. "An 1820s Forest Farm in the Fairlee Hills, Vermont." The Journal of Vermont Archaeology 15:68-94. 2021
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2021. "Epilog: Reflections on the Fifth Thule Centennial." Alaska Journal of Anthropology 19 (1):264-269. 2021
- Chechushkov, Igor V., Valiakhmetov, Iliya A., and Fitzhugh, William W. 2021. "From adaptation to niche construction: Weather as a winter site selection factor in northern Mongolia, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and the southern Urals." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101258 2021
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav. 2021. "Khadag and Zunii Gol: Animal Art and the Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Northern Mongolia." Vestnik 66 (3):908-933. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.313 2021
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Martin, Jeff. 2021. "The Martin North River Site and the Saunders Phase in Labrador." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 19:62-74. 2021
- Taylor, William Timothy Treal, Clark, Julia, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Tuvshinjargal, Tumurbaatar, Jobe, Jessica Thompson, Fitzhugh, William, Kortum, Richard, Spengler, Robert N., Shnaider, Svetlana, Seersholm, Frederik Valeur, Hart, Isaac, Case, Nicholas, Wilkin, Shevan, Hendy, Jessica, Thuering, Ulrike, Miller, Bryan, Miller, Alicia R. Ventresca, Picin, Andrea, Vanwezer, Nils, Irmer, Franziska, Brown, Samantha, Abdykanova, Aida, Shultz, Daniel R., Pham, Victoria, Bunce, Michael et al. 2020. "Author Correction: Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia." Scientific Reports 10 (1):https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60516-2 2020
- Taylor, William Timothy Treal, Clark, Julia, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Tuvshinjargal, Tumurbaatar, Jobe, Jessica Thompson, Fitzhugh, William, Kortum, Richard, Spengler, Robert N., Shnaider, Svetlana, Seersholm, Frederik Valeur, Hart, Isaac, Case, Nicholas, Wilkin, Shevan, Hendy, Jessica, Thuering, Ulrike, Miller, Bryan, Miller, Alicia R. Ventresca, Picin, Andrea, Vanwezer, Nils, Irmer, Franziska, Brown, Samantha, Abdykanova, Aida, Shultz, Daniel R., Pham, Victoria, Bunce, Michael et al. 2020. "Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia." Scientific Reports 10 (1):Article 1001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57735-y 2020
- Taylor, William, Fantoni, Marcello, Marchina, Charlotte, Lepetz, Sébastien, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Houle, Jean-Luc, Pham, Victoria, and Fitzhugh, William W. 2020. "Horse sacrifice and butchery in Bronze Age Mongolia." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31:Article 102313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102313 2020
- Fitzhugh, William W., Mlyniec, Michael, Chechushkov, Igor, and Loewen, Brad. 2020. "Kettle Head and the Inuit of Grand Isle: Basques, Boulder Pits, and Excavations on the Quebec Lower North Shore." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 18 (2019):61-70. 2020
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2020. "Riding the Harp Seal Highway: Modeling Climate, Sea Ice Pulsations, and Inuit Migrations in the Eastern Subarctic." in Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North, edited by Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, Aron L., 79-99. Smithsonian Scholarly Press. 2020
- Fitzhugh, William, DePriest, Paula T., Solazzo, Caroline, and Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav. 2019. "Darkhad Textile Recovery and Conservation Project." Arctic Studies Newsletter 26:61-62. 2019
- Marchman, Jacob, Fitzhugh, William W., and Maisel, Mary. 2019. "Gateways 2018: More Evidence from Hart Chalet, Grand Plain, Belles Amours, and Grand Isle." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 17 (2018):157-168. 2019
- Marchman, Jacob A., Fitzhugh, William W., and Maisel, Mary. 2019. "Gateways 2018: More Evidence from Hart Chalet, Grand Plain, Belles Amours, and Grand Isle.." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 17 (2018):155-166. 2019
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2019. "Paradise Gained, Lost, and Regained: Pulse Migration and the Inuit Archaeology of the Quebec Lower North Shore." Arctic Anthropology 56 (1):52-76. https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.56.1.52 2019
- Taylor, William, Wilkin, Shevan, Wright, Joshua, Dee, Michael, Erdene, Myagmar, Clark, Julia, Tuvshinjargal, Tumurbaatar, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Fitzhugh, William, and Boivin, Nicole L. 2019. "Radiocarbon dating and cultural dynamics across Mongolia's early pastoral transition." PLOS ONE 14 (11):Article e0224241. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224241 2019
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Luukkanen, Harri T. 2019. "The Indigenous Watercraft of Northern Eurasia." Sankt-Peterburgskii Universitet.Vestnik. 64 (2):476-500. 2019
- Brake, Jamie and Fitzhugh, William W. 2019. "The Rigolet Archaeological survey Project 2018." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 17 (2018):27-37. 2019
- Taylor, William Timothy Treal, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Tuvshinjargal, Tumurbaatar, Bender, Scott, Tromp, Monica, Clark, Julia, Lowry, K. Bryce, Houle, Jean-Luc, Staszewski, Dimitri, Whitworth, Jocelyn, Fitzhugh, William W., and Boivin, Nicole. 2018. "Origins of equine dentistry." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (29):E6707-E6715. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721189115 2018
- Marchman, Jacob and Fitzhugh, William W. 2018. "The Gateways Project 2017: Hart Chalet, Grand Plain, Grand Isle, and Belles Amours." Provincial Archaeology 2017 Annual Review 16:101-110. 2018
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Brake, Jamie. 2018. "The Rigolet Project IV: Mason Island, Snooks Cove, and Lake Melville." Provincial Archaeology 2017 Annual Review 16:93-100. 2018
- Nweeia, Martin T. and Fitzhugh, William W. 2017. "A World of Questions." in Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend, edited by Fitzhugh, William W. and Nweeia, Martin T., xv-xxvii. IPI Press and Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. 2017
- Cole, Daniel G. and Fitzhugh, William W. 2017. "Exhibiting the Interconnections between Inuit, Narwhals, and Arctic Climate Change." Cartouche (93/94): 29-33. 2017
- Cole, Daniel G. and Fitzhugh, William W. 2017. "Exhibiting the Interconnections between Inuit, Narwhals, and Climate Change." Cartouche (93/94): 29-33. 2017
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Engelstad, Bernadette. 2017. "Inuguat: Prehistoric Human Figurines of the North American Arctic." in The Oxford handbook of prehistoric figurines, edited by Insoll, Timothy., 367-390. Oxford University Press. 2017
- Solazzo, Caroline, Fitzhugh, William W., Kaplan, Susan, Potter, Charles, and Dyer, Jolon M. 2017. "Molecular markers in keratins from Mysticeti whales for species identification of baleen in museum and archaeological collections." PLOS ONE 12 (8):1-24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183053 2017
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2017. "Mongolian Deer Stones, European Menhirs, and Canadian Arctic Inuksuit: Collective Memory and the Function of Northern Monument Traditions." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 24 (1):149-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9328-0 2017
- Fitzhugh, William W., Brake, Jamie, and Jolicoeur, Patrick. 2017. "The Rigolet Project 2016: Groswater Bay, Narrows, and Eastern Lake Melville." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 15 (2016):48-54. 2017
- Jolicoeur, Patrick and Fitzhugh, William W. 2016. "2015 Excavations at the Hart chalet Inuit Village." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 14 (2015):121-125. 2016
- Jolicoeur, Patrick, Brake, Jamie, Fitzhugh, William W., and Davies, Michelle. 2016. "A Survey of the Islands in Southern Groswater Bay." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 14 (2015):107-120. 2016
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2016. "Archaeology of the Inuit of Southern Labrador and the Quebec Lower North Shore." in The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic, edited by Friesen, T. Max and Mason, O., 931-953. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.47 2016
- Seersholm, Frederik Valeur, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Søe, Martin Jensen, Shokry, Hussein, Mak, Sarah Siu Tze, Ruter, Anthony, Raghavan, Maanasa, Fitzhugh, William W., Kjær, Kurt H., Willerslev, Eske, Meldgaard, Morten, Kapel, Christian M. O., and Hansen, Anders Johannes. 2016. "DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago." Nature Communications 7:1-34. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13389 2016
- Jolicoeur, Patrick and Fitzhugh, William W. 2016. "Excavation and Survey along Quebec's Lower North Shore." Provincial Archaeology Newsletter 15:123-135. 2016
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2016. "Foreword." in An Intimate Wilderness: travels across a land of vast horizons, edited by Hallendy, Norman., 19-21. Greystone Publishers. 2016
- DePriest, Paula T. and Fitzhugh, William W. 2015. "Preserving Mongolia's Heritage." Arctic Studies Center Newsletter (22): 40-41. 2015
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2015. "Rigolet surveys and excavations at the Hart Chalet Inuit site, Brador." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 13 (2014):48-53. 2015
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2015. "The Inuit Archaeology of the Quebec Lower North Shore." Études Inuit. Inuit Studies 39 (1):37-62. https://doi.org/10.7202/1036077ar 2015
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2015. "The Tuvaaluk and Torngat Archaeological Projects: Review and Assessment." Études Inuit. Inuit Studies 39 (2):27-60. 2015
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2014. "After Red Bay: A Basque and Inuit Joint Venture on the Quebec Lower North Shore." Revista Internacional de los Estudios Vascos 59 (2):320-348. 2014
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Phaneuf, Erik. 2014. "Basques and Inuit at Hare Harbor-1 and the Inuit Hart Chalet Site on the Quebec Lower North Shore." Newfoundland Provincial Archaeology Review 2013:33-49. 2014
- Lymer, Kenneth, Fitzhugh, William W., and Kortum, Richard. 2014. "Deer Stones and Rock Art in Mongolia during the Second the First Millenia BC." in Deer and People, edited by Baker, Karis and Carden, R.,Madgwick R., 159-172. Oxbow Books. 2014
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2014. "Frederica deLaguna (1906-2004): Memorial Essay (reprint: in Russian)." Archaeology of the Arctic (Arkheologiia Arktiki) 2:213-232. 2014
- Raghavan, Maanasa, DeGiorgio, Michael, Albrechtsen, Anders, Moltke, Ida, Skoglund, Pontus, Korneliussen, Thorfinn S., Grønnow, Bjarne, Appelt, Martin, Gulløv, Hans Christian, Friesen, T. M., Fitzhugh, William W., Malmström, Helena, Rasmussen, Simon, Olsen, Jesper, Melchior, Linea, Fuller, Benjamin T., Fahrni, Simon M., Stafford, Thomas, Grimes, Vaughan, Renouf, M. A. P., Cybulski, Jerome, Lynnerup, Niels, Lahr, Marta Mirazon, Britton, Kate, Knecht, Rick et al. 2014. "The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic." Science 345 (6200):1020. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255832 2014
- Halfar, Jochen, Adey, Walter H., Kronz, Andreas, Hetzinger, Steffen, Edinger, Evan, and Fitzhugh, William W. 2013. "Arctic sea-ice decline archived by multicentury annual-resolution record from crustose coralline algal proxy." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (49):19737-19741. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1313775110 2013
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Phaneuf, Erik. 2013. "Basque and Inuit Archaeology at Hare Harbor-1 and little Canso Island-1, Quebec lower North Shore." Newfoundland Provincial Archaeology Review 11 (2012):48-73. 2013
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2012. "Call Me "Tiger": Ernest S. Burch, Jr., the Smithsonian, and Remembrance." Arctic Anthropology 49 (2):221-226. 2012
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2012. "Inuit Archaeology on the Quebec Lower North Shore in 2010." Newfoundland Provincial Archaeology Review 10:63-76. 2012
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2011. "An Inuit Winter House on Petit Mecatina (Hare Harbor-1, EdBt-3) and Notes on the Harp Seal Failure of 2010." Newfoundland Provincial Archaeology Review 9 (March):37-50. 2011
- Fitzhugh, William W., Herzog, Anja, Perdikaris, Sophia, and McLeod, Brenna. 2011. "Ship to Shore: Inuit, Early Europeans, and Maritime Landscapes in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence." in The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes: When the Land Meets the Sea, edited by Ford, Ben., 99-108. Springer. 2011
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Arctic Cultures and Global Theory: Historical Tracks along the Circumpolar Road." in A Circumpolar Reappraisal: The Legacy of Gutorm Gjessing (1906-1979), edited by Westerdahl, Christer., 87-109. Archaeopress. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Basques and Inuit on the Quebec Lower North Shore: 2009 Field Report." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 8 (2009):50-61. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Changing Cultures and Climate in the Arctic: Prehistory to Modern Times." AnthroNotes 31 (1):13-17. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Elmer Harp, Jr. (1913-2009)." Arctic 63 (2):252-254. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Inuit Archaeology on the Quebec Lower North Shore in 2011." Newfoundland Provincial Archaeology Review 10:63-76. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W., Krupnik, Igor, and Muller-Wille, Ludger. 2010. "Laying the Groundwork for Arctic Social Science 1985-1990." Northern Notes: Newsletter of the Arctic Social Science Association 18-20. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Laying the Groundwork for Arctic Social Sciences, 1985–1990." Northern Notes: Journal of the International Arctic Social Science Association 33:18-19. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Changing Cultures and Climate in the Arctic: Prehistory to Modern Times." AnthroNotes 30 (2):13-17. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Eagles, Beasts, and Gods: Art of the Old Bering Sea Harpoon Complex." in Gifts for the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories From Bering Sea, edited by Hollowell, Julie and Crowell, Aron L., 162-189. Princeton University. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Exploring cultural boundaries: the less 'invisible' Inuit of southern Labrador and Quebec." in On the track of the Thule culture from Bering Strait to East Greenland, edited by Gronnow, Bjarne., 129-148. National Museum of Denmark. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Inuit Sites Found at Petit Mécatina and Brador: St. Lawrence Gateways Project 2008." Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 7 (2008):38-50. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Labrador, Newfoundland, and Quebec (Canada): Basque Whaling and Fishing Sites from the 1500s." in Archaeology in America: an Encyclopedia, edited by McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent C., and Milner, George R., 87-91. Greenwood Press. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Notes on Art, Style, and Cultures." in Gifts for the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories From Bering Sea, edited by Hollowell, Julie and Crowell, Aron L., 88-93. Princeton University. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Stone Shamans and Flying Deer of Northern Mongolia: Deer Goddess of Siberia or Chimera of the Steppe?." Arctic Anthropology 46 (1-2):72-88. https://doi.org/10.1353/arc.0.0025 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "The Ancient Stone Men of Mongolia." in Mongolia: Land of the Deer Stone, edited by Ling, Elaine., v-xiii. Lodima Press. 2009
- Solazzo, Caroline, Fitzhugh, William W., Rolando, Christian, and Tokarski, Caroline. 2008. "Identification of Protein Remains in Archaeological Potsherds by Proteomics." Analytical Chemistry 80 (12):4590-4597. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac800515v 2008
- Cioffi-Revilla, C., Luke, S., Parker, D. C., Rogers, J. Daniel, Fitzhugh, William W., Honeychurch, William, Frohlich, Bruno, DePriest, Paula T., and Amartuvshin, C. 2007. "Agent-Based Modeling Simulation of Social Adaptation and Long-Term Change in Inner Asia." in Advancing Social Simulation: The First World Congress, edited by Takahashi, S., Sallach, D., and Rouchier, J., 189-200. Springer. 2007
- Beaubien, Harriet F., Karas, B. V., and Fitzhugh, William W. 2007. "Documenting Mongolia's Deer Stones: Application of Three-Dimensional Digital Imaging Technology to Preservation." in Scientific Research on the Sculptural Arts of Asia. Proceedings of the Third Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art, 133-142. 2007
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2007. "Foreword." in Arctic, Our Crystal World: documentary Photos from the Arctic Through 40 Years, edited by Sillis, Ivars., 4-5.. Nordatlantens Brygge. 2007
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2007. "Underwater Archaeology at the Hare Harbor Basque Site at Petit Mecatina." Archaeology in Newfoundland & Labrador 5:45-57. 2007
book
- Luukkanen, Harri and Fitzhugh, William W. 2020. The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia. Smithsonian Scholarly Press. 2020
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2017. Surveys in Groswater Bay and excavations at Hart Chalet and St. Paul River, Quebec. Smithsonian Institution; Arctic Studies Center. 2017
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2017. The Gateways Project 2016: Surveys in Groswater Bay, Labrador, and St. Paul River, Quebec, and Excavations at Hart Chalet. Arctic Studies Center. 2017
- The Gateways Project 2015: Archaeological Surveys in Groswater Bay and Excavations at Hart Chalet. Ed. Fitzhugh, William. 2016
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2015. The Gateways Project 2014: Land Excavations at Hart Chalet. Arctic Studies Center. 2015
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Richard, Wilfred. 2014. Maine to Greenland: Exploring the Maritime Far Northeast. Smithsonian Books. 2014
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Phaneuf, Eric. 2014. The Gateways Project 2013: Land and Underwater Excavations at Hare Harbor and Brador. Arctic Studies Center. 2014
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2013. Frederica de Laguna 1906-2004, a biographical memoir. National Academy of Sciences. 2013
- Rock Art and Archaeology: Investigating Ritual Landscape in the Mongolian Altai 2012. Ed. Fitzhugh, William. 2013
- The Gateways Project 2012: land and Underwater Excavations at Hare Harbor, Petit Mecatina, and Little Canso Island. Ed. Fitzhugh, William. 2013
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2012. American-Mongolian Deer Stone Project: Field Report 2011. Arctic Studies Center. 2012
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2012. The Gateways Project 2011: Land & Underwater Excavations at Hare Harbor, Mécatina. Arctic Studies Center. 2012
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Bayarsaikhan, J. 2010. American-Mongolian Deer Stone Project: Field Report 2009. Arctic Studies Center. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. The Gateways Project 2009: Land Excavations at Hare Harbor, Mécatina. Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Bayarsaikhan, J. 2009. American-Mongolian Deer Stone Project: Field Report 2008. Arctic Studies Center. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Bayarsaikhan, J. 2008. American-Mongolian Deer Stone Project: Field Report 2007. Arctic Studies Center. 2008
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2007. American-Mongolian Deer Stone Project: Field Report 2006. Arctic Studies Center. 2007
- Rogers, J. Daniel and Fitzhugh, William W. 2007. Progress Report on the 2004 Memorandum of Understanding: Report on the MOU between The Mongolian Academy of Sciences, The National Museum of Mongolian History, and the Smithsonian Institution. Arctic Studies Center. 2007
chapter
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2020. "Treasures from the Earth; Echoes of the Past." in Yua: Spirit of the Arctic. Highlights from the Thomas C. Fowler Collection, edited by Olcott, Hillary., 42-67. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. 2020
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2016. "Frederica de Laguna: The Last Arctic Universalist and Bridge to the Future." in Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s, edited by Krupnik, Igor., 219-241. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2016
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2016. "Solving the "Eskimo Problem": Henry Bascom Collins and Arctic Archaeology." in Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s, edited by Krupnik, Igor., 165-192. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2016
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2014. "Climate modeling of sea ice, harp seals, and Eskimos." in Climates of change: the shifting environment of archaeology. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by Kulyk, Sheila, Tremain, C. G., and Sawyer, M., 23-52. Chacmool Archaeological Association, University of Calgary. 2014
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2014. "The Ipiutak spirit-scape: an archaeological phenomenon." in The Foragers of Point Hope: the Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic, 266-290. Cambridge University Press. 2014
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2013. "Foreword." in Inupiaq Ethnohistory. Selected Essays by Ernest S. Burch, Jr, edited by Erica Hill., vii. University of Alaska Press. 2013
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2011. "Mapping Ritual Landscapes in Bronze Age Mongolia and Beyond: Interpreting the Ideoscape of the Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex." in Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present, edited by Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav., 166-192. University of Pennsylvania Museum. 2011
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Deer Stones and Khirigsuurs." in Mongolia Nomad Empire of the Eternal Blue Sky, edited by Robinson, Carl., 396-397. Odyssey Books and Guides. 2010
- Karas, Basiliki Vicky, Beaubien, Harriet F., and Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Documenting Mongolia’s deer stones: application of 3D laser scanning technology to archaeological conservation. Chapter 13." in The Conservation of Archaeological Materials: Current trends and future directions, edited by Williams, Emily and Peachy, Claire., 103-112. Archaeopress. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "Millennia of Change: Dynamics of Culture and Environment Along the Northern Forest Fringe." in Papers from the Third Northern Archaeological Congress, Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia, 8-13 November, 2010, edited by Golovnev, Andrei V., 143-162. Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2010. "The arctic and subarctic." in Indians nations of North America, edited by Viola, Herman J., 102. National Geographic Society. 2010
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. ""Of No Ordinary Importance": Reversing Polarities in Smithsonian Arctic Studies." in Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science, edited by Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A., and Miller, Scott E., 61-78. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.6 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Ancestors and Ivories: Art of the Ancient Bering Sea." in Gifts for the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories From Bering Sea, edited by Hollowell, Julie and Crowell, Aron L., 18-41. Princeton University. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Genghis Khan: Empire and Legacy." in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, edited by Rossabi, Morris and Honeychurch, William., 22-39. Arctic Studies Center. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Hamilton Inlet, Coastal Eastern Labrador: Cultural Boundary Shifts Along a Forest-Tundra Frontier." in Archaeology in America: an Encyclopedia, edited by McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent G., and Milner, George R., 4:343-4:348. Greenwood Press. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Nomads with Cell Phones." in Mongolia: Land of the Deer Stone, edited by Ling, Elaine., xi-xiii. Arctic Studies Center. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "Pre-Scythian Khirigsuurs, Deer Stone Art, and Bronze Age Cultural Intensification in Northern Mongolia." in New Research Directions in Eurasian Steppe Archaeology: the Emergence of complex societies in the Third to First Millennium BCE, edited by Linduff, Katheryn., 378-411. Cambridge University Press. 2009
- Honeychurch, William, Fitzhugh, William W., and Rossabi, Morris. 2009. "Precursor to Empire: Early Cultures and Prehistoric Peoples." in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, edited by Rossabi, Morris and Honeychurch, William., 74-83. Arctic Studies Center. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. "The Mongolian Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex: Dating and Organiation of a Late Bronze Age Menagerie." in Current Archaeological Research in Mongolia, edited by Bemmann, Jan, Parzinger, Hermann, Pohl, Ernst, and Tseveendorzh, Damdinsuren., 183-199. Vor- und Fruhgeschichtliche Archeologie , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2008. "Arctic and Circumpolar Regions." in Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Pearsall, Deborah M., 247-271. Academic Press. 2008
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2007. "Dartmouth College: A Northern Tradition." in Think Ice, Inuit Traditions Within a Changing Environment, edited by Stuckenburger, Anja Nicole., 7-10. Hood Museum of Art. 2007
conference paper
- Crowell, Aron L., Krupnik, Igor, Fitzhugh, William W., Engelstad, Bernadette, Dean, Bernadette, Harper, Kenneth, MacKenzie, Scott, Michelsen, Knud, Kleist, Mari, Griebel, Brendan, Sonne, Birgitte, Pratt, Kenneth, Shokarev, Sergei, Schwalbe, Daria, Appelt, Martin, Nielsen, Bent, Norbert, Eileen, and Bronshtein, Michael. 2021. "From Greenland to the Pacific: Centennial of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-1924." in Alaska Journal of Anthropology. 19 (1-2), iii–269. 46th Annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association (Nome, Alaska) 2019-02-28. Alaska Anthropological Association. 2021
- Cole, Daniel G. and Fitzhugh, William W. 2020. "Visualization and Spatial Analysis of Archaeological Landscape Ritual in the Mongolian Altai." In , February 7, 2020, 13-21. Mongolia Cultural Center. 2020
report
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2020. [Report] The Gateways Project 2019: Excavations at Hart Chalet, Grand Isle, and Bonne Esperance. Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 2020
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2019. [Report] The Gateways Project 2018: Surveys in Groswater Bay and Excavations at Hart Chalet, Grand Isle, and Grand Plain. Smithsonian Institution. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/97781. 2019
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2019. [Report] The Gateways Project 2019. Excavations at Hart Chalet, Grand Isle, and Bonne Esperance. Smithsonian Institution. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/104471. 2019
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2018. [Report] The Gateways Project 2017: Surveys in Groswater Bay, Labrador, and Excavations at Hart Chalet and St. Paul River, Quebec.. Smithsonian Institution. 2018
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. [Report] American-Mongolian Deer Stone Project: Field Report 2008. Arctic Studies Center. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2009. [Report] The Gateways Project 2008. Land and Underwater Excavations at Hare Harbor, Mecatina. Arctic Studies Center. 2009
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav. 2008. [Report] American Mongolian Deer Stone Project: Field Report 2007. Arctic Studies Center. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/92722. 2008
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Phaneuf, Erik. 2008. [Report] The Gateways Project 2007: Land and Underwater Excavations at Hare Harbor, Mecatina. Arctic Studies Center. 2008
review
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2013. [Book review] "Archaeology and the Sea in Scandinavia and Britain. A Personal Account." The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 144-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2012.736918 2013
- Fitzhugh, William W. 2012. [Book review] "Prehistory of Port au Choix: History, Cultures, and Landscape." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 129-136. 2012
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- Fitzhugh, William W. 2011. "Edward W. Nelson Alaska Diaries 1877-1881." 2011
- Fitzhugh, William W. and Phaneuf, Erik. 2008. "Excavations at the Hare Harbor Basque Site (EdBt-3), Petit Mecatina, Quebec, 2007." 2008

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