Digging Out Alaska's Past Before the Next Storm

Remnants of a typhoon last year damaged homes, infrastructure and an archaeological dig site in Alaska. Archaeologists are now working to get as many objects out of the ground as they can before the next storm, NPR reports. Excavation is normally slow on purpose: what matters is not only an object but where it sat and what sat beside it. Weather turns that principle into a deadline, and a rushed dig trades some of that context for the chance to keep the objects at all.