A crew of volunteer excavators and archaeologists searches the soil for artifacts at the Nunalleq dig site near the coastal village of Quinhagak, Alaska, on June 8.

An Alaska storm scattered artifacts. Archaeologists are racing to save what’s left

Volunteer excavators and archaeologists, many of them kneeling, search the soil for artifacts at the Nunalleq dig site.

A crew of volunteer excavators and archaeologists searches the soil for artifacts at the Nunalleq dig site near the coastal village of Quinhagak, Alaska, on June 8. MaryCait Dolan/KYUK

MaryCait Dolan/KYUK

Last October, remnants of Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska — causing widespread flooding and displacing over a thousand people in multiple far-flung villages off the state’s road system.

In the coastal village of Quinhagak, the storm shook houses and damaged some buildings and

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