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
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
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/spbu02.2021.3132021
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
Fitzhugh, William W. and Luukkanen, Harri T. 2019. "The Indigenous Watercraft of Northern Eurasia." Sankt-Peterburgskii Universitet.Vestnik. 64 (2):476-500.
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.17211891152018
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
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
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/s10816-017-9328-02017
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/9780199766956.013.472016
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/10.7202/1036077ar2015
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.12558322014
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.13137751102013
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. "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. "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. "The Ancient Stone Men of Mongolia." in Mongolia: Land of the Deer Stone, edited by Ling, Elaine., v-xiii. Lodima Press.
2009
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
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. 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
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. 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
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. 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/10.1080/15564894.2012.7369182013
Fitzhugh, William W. 2012. [Book review] "Prehistory of Port au Choix: History, Cultures, and Landscape." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 129-136.
2012
webpage
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
William Fitzhugh is an anthropologist specializing in circumpolar archaeology, ethnology and environmental studies. He first became interested in the North through canoeing in Ontario and his anthropological studies at Dartmouth College. After two years in the U.S. Navy he attended Harvard University where he received his PhD in anthropology in 1970, and thereafter took a position at the National Museum of Natural History.
As director of the Arctic Studies Center and Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Bill has spent more than forty years studying and publishing on arctic peoples and cultures in northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Scandinavia, and Mongolia. His archaeological and environmental research has focused upon the prehistory and paleoecology of northeastern North America, and broader aspects of his research feature the evolution of northern maritime adaptations, circumpolar culture contacts, cross-cultural studies and acculturation processes in the North, especially concerning Native-European contacts.
As curator of the National Museum of Natural History's arctic collections, Bill has produced five nternational exhibitions, Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimos; Crossroads of Continents: Native Cultures of Siberia and Alaska; Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People; Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, and Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories from Bering Strait. His public and educational activities include the production of films, including the NOVA specials, "Mysteries of the Lost Red Paint People", "Norse America", and several other Viking films. He served as Chairman of the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology from 1975-80 and again in 2002-2005, has been an Advisor to the Arctic Research Commission, represents the Smithsonian and arctic social science in various government councils, served on the Smithsonian Science Commission and holds various other administrative and advisory posts. Read More