Angela is a Principal Investigator and Technical Writer. They have worked since 2005 as a professional archaeologist in Alberta, Yukon Territory, Alaska, and California. They joined Far Western in 2016, with a short time away from 2020-2022 at home in Canada.
Angela earned their M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alberta in 2008, and their Ph.D. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University in 2015, conducting collaborative research with the Tanana Chiefs Conference in Fairbanks, Alaska. During their Ph.D. program, they co-managed undergraduate archaeological field schools and public education programs for Indigenous and underprivileged youth. Other past research has focused on lithic technology, consultation with local tribal governments, and the incorporation of archived collections into new research questions and datasets.
Their experience in cultural resources management includes directing archaeological survey, excavation, and laboratory analysis, ethnographic recording and mapping of traditional use sites, and community archaeology and education.
Angela has been active in the archaeological community as a volunteer mentor, peer reviewer, session chair at Society of American Archaeology meetings, and Program Chair for the 2019 Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting.
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Angela’s Featured Projects
- NAS Fallon Ethnographic Study
- PG&E Electra to Valley Springs Reconductor Project
- North Fork Mokelumne River Canyon Archaeological District (MRCAD) Area Ethnographic Study and Re-Evaluation
Angela’s Featured Publications
Younie, A.M., R. J. Le Blanc and R. J. Woywitka
2017
Microblade Technology, Subarctic Cultural Adaptations, and the Denali Complex in the Alberta Oil Sands. In Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin: Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments, edited by Brian M. Ronaghan. Athabasca University Press, Athabasca, Alberta.
Younie, A.M. and T. E. Gillispie
2016
Lithic Technology at Linda’s Point, Healy Lake, Alaska. ARCTIC Journal 69(1):79-98
Gillispie, T. E., R. Sattler, J. P. Cook, and A. M. Younie
2014
Healy Lake Village: New Data and Analysis from the Chindadn Site. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 11:186-187.
Younie, A.M., R. Le Blanc and R. Woywitka
2010
Little Pond: A Microblade And Burin Site In Northeastern Alberta. Arctic Anthropology 47(1): 71-92
Outreach Activities
- Program Chair, Society for California Archaeology 53rd Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California (2019)
- Session Chair, Mortuary Practices and Funerary Archaeology II. General Session held during the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, Canada. (2017)
- Graduate-Undergraduate Mentorship Program, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University. Mentor for two undergraduate students preparing to apply to graduate school (2011-2012)
- Reviewer of papers for: American Antiquity, ARCTIC Journal, PaleoAmerica, Quaternary International (2015-2016)