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Research topics are endless! What fun to compare the data from one site with that from another. (Photo provided by Mark Fitzsimons.)
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Paths Across the Pacific (in Sitka in 2010). If you have an interest in archaeology or anthropology, make it a point to keep track of the papers from this conference. Speakers included Stephen Jett, Don Ryan,
the now famous son of Thor Heyerdahl, himself a fine researcher, and Betty Meggers of the Smithsonian Institution. Please go to the Paths website for abstracts. ****
Colleagues from around the world share data with us, and we are happy to reciprocate. Researchers of note include Andrei Tabarev, Tom Gilbert, Eske Willserslev, Steve Jett, Betty Meggers, Priscilla Wegars, and others whose work will be included in this website. Please look them up online in the interim!
Image on left courtesy of Dr. Reid Bryson
and CCR. Was the Land Bridge a viable
route for the earliest peopling of the
Americas? Not according to experts such
as Dr. Betty Meggers and Dr. Reid Bryson.
Article: Archaeology mixes with old and ancient climate data for the Salem, Oregon area in the following: web3PaleoXSalem.doc All of the information was ground truthed", through excavations and laboratory analysis. This article was originally published in
Screenings, a publication of the Oregon Archaeological Society.
If you have an interest in Russia, Japan, and MesoAmerican archaeology, be aware of work by Andrei Tabarev, Head of the Division of Foreign Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Information on Dr. Tabarev can be found at the Institute, or at Andrei Tabarev.doc
In the 16th C. (1500's), some
American Indians on Oregon's coast
took Ming Dynasty porcelains and
made them into projectile points.
A discussion of archaeological
features and cultural materials, in
this case shipwrecks and artifacts,
is detailed in this article
webCAHO shipwreck scan++.doc
This article was originally published in Current
Archaeological Happenings in Oregon, a
publication of the Association for Oregon
Archaeologists.
Examples of Early Lithic Types
Article: A pre-Clovis presence in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon--near Portland, Oregon:
Start article CAHO Clovis in the Valley.doc, an article that has now been published in Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon, a publication of the Association for Oregon Archaeologists. Note: Please download the images for this article, figures 1 and 2: Figure 1 for Clovis in Valley.rtf and Fig 2 for Clovis.jpg
Wapato covers several site areas and gives A mysterious population briefly lived in the area,
reliable data about the environment. made fired clay objects, and then disapeared.
They lived here surrounded by American Indians,
and plants such as wapato. (Ceramic sculpture
above made between A.D. 1210-1650.)
Archaeology and climate studies come together in this description of prehistoric site environments, in webvanc-lkRvrclimate.doc This article was originally published in Screenings, a publication of the Oregon Archaeological Society.
The article,
International Travel in the Pleistocene, is now available online. It discusses the extinction of selected megafauna, species specific disease, climate variations, and the problems with associating humans with Pleistocene extinctions. Please see
webMEGAFAUNA.doc for discussions on these topics and others.
>>>>For photos of archaeological sites, terrestrial and underwater work, megafaunal remains, etc., use this link, then click on the astenger webshots option: http://community.webshots.com/user/astengerDocuments related to NAGPRA 2010 regulations for the disposition of culturally unidentified remains can be seen at www.friendsofpast.org. Directors of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Indian and the National Musuem of Natural History, and 41 prominent scientists (all members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences) weigh in AGAINSTthe DOI's FInal Rule. Related articles and testimony.[updated 5/28/10]. Please read this important information.
A predator bird with a wing span the length of a Ford van was documented in Pleistocene deposits at Woodburn, Oregon. Avian paleontologist, Dr. Kenneth Campbell, identified this animal as a new species.
It was subsequently named Teratornis woodburnensis, and the details about this 12,000 year old species can be downloaded from Oregon Teratorn 2002.pdf