Kaylee Baxter

Kaylee Baxter is an archaeologist specializing in the Paleo-Inuit, ancestral Inuit, and Norse cultures of the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland. During her archaeology field seasons in Greenland and Nunavut, Kaylee fell in love with the Arctic and its deep cultural history.

Kaylee's research focuses on the relationship between archaeology and climate change. She investigates both how climate has shaped the cultural history of the Arctic throughout the past, and how modern climate change is impacting archaeological sites across the Arctic in the present. In Greenland, Kaylee has excavated at various Norse archaeology sites and surveyed for ancestral Inuit sites. She has also worked on projects that monitored the impact of modern climate change at significant archaeological sites, as well as assisted in paleo-environmental science fieldwork. In Nunavut, she has surveyed for Paleo-Inuit and ancestral Inuit archaeology sites.

In addition to her fieldwork, Kaylee has studied the extensive cultural history of the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland while earning her M.A. in Arctic Archaeology. She has also worked professionally as an archaeologist across Canada, digging up the past in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon. You'll quickly find that she is eager to talk with you about what makes the archaeology of the Arctic so special, and to share how archaeologists uncover and interpret the cultural past of these incredible places.