Robert E. Ackerman is an archaeologist with research interest in the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Asia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1961). Research visits have been made to Russia, Japan, Korea, and China to attend scientific conferences and to study archaeological collections from the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic sites. His specific research interests include the earliest evidence for the movement of hunter-gatherers into coastal and interior regions of northeast Asia and Alaska, late Pleistocene and early Holocene cultural adaptation, and further definition of the cultural phases of Arctic and subarctic prehistory. He is currently editing a book entitled Prehistoric Routes to the New World-Northeast Asia to South America to be published by Washington State University Press, and is working on a monograph dealing with the prehistory of southwestern Alaska. Dr. Ackerman received the Career Achievement Award from the Alaska Anthropological Association in April 1999.