The proposed research focuses on Nunalleq, a 16th-17th-century pre-Contact Yup’ik site from coastal Alaska. Archaeological excavations at the site since 2009 have produced evidence of a large sod village that appears to have beenabandoned following a conflict episode likely associated with a period known from Yup’ik oral histories as the “Bow and Arrow Wars.” This honours project will be building on the research previously conducted by my supervisor Dr. V. Forbes on the siteby deploying archaeoentomological methods (the study of insect remains) in an attempt to identify the cause and season of death of one of the human individuals represented in the osteological assemblage. Through the analysis of lice, blowflies, fleas and beetles preserved in a sample associated with this particular individual, this project will contribute to a better understanding of the conflict episode at the site.