This Sod House

FrontierScientists.com – This Sod House describes the homes of Native people unearthed at an archaeological site at Cape Alitak, Kodiak Island, Alaska.

For thousands of years Alutiiq people lived in sod houses and hunted sea mammals, relying on special technologies, ancestral knowledge, and spiritual assistance to care for their families. The Cape Alitak petroglyphs of Alaska are one of the only written records of their way of life. Pecked into Kodiak’s granite bedrock, images of people and animals preserve customs from the Alutiiq past. Museum scientists explain this amazing history in seven short films.

The Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository and the video production company WonderVisions present "The Cape Alitak Petroglyphs" series of short videos that explore Alutiiq heritage at the southern tip of Kodiak Island. Produced with support from the National Park Service Shared Beringian Heritage program and a Tribal Historic Preservation grant, the videos document recent archaeological research on Kodiak rock art.