John P. Cook ’64 AM

John P. Cook ’64 AM, of Bath, Pa.; Dec. 22. He performed fieldwork in the Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska’s Onion Portage and investigated the prehistory of Healy Lake in Alaska before beginning work at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1968. There, in addition to a full teaching schedule, he was eventually in charge of all archaeological surveys and excavations north of Glennallen, before and during construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, and he directed salvage excavations at Amchitka Island. In the early 1970s he cofounded the Alaska Anthropological Assoc. and in the mid-to-late 1970s he pioneered the use of x-ray fluorescence and instrumental neutron activation analysis testing the possibility of determining prehistoric trade routes. In 1980 he began working at the Bureau of Land Management, where for nearly two decades he was in charge of investigation and management of cultural resources in the trans-Alaska pipeline corridor and interior Alaska lands controlled by the U.S. Army and Air Force. He was involved with several organizations, including the Alaska State Historical Commission, the Fairbanks Borough Commission for Historic Preservation, the Canadian Archaeological Assoc., and the Society for American Archeology. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two sons, including Timothy ’96 AM; a stepson; three grandchildren; a sister; a brother; and former wife, Nancy Wolens Cook ’60, ’64 MAT.