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Archaeology First Thursdays

 
Archaeology First Thursdays are an opportunity to take a deep dive into archaeology practice. Each month our distinguished guests present research. You have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss directly with them. The final presentation in the series happened May 5, 2022.
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  • Indigenous Women and Pre-Contact Rock Art in the Northern Plains Region by Emily Van Alst

    Indigenous Women and Pre-Contact Rock Art in the Northern Plains Region

    Emily Van Alst

    Petroglyphs in the Northwest Plains region of the United States transmit Indigenous knowledge across generations and require interpretations rooted in Indigenous ontologies to fully contextualize and understand these images. An ...Read More

  • People and Plants in the American Far West: Synthesizing Archaeobotanical Data from Oregon's Great Basin by Jaime Kennedy

    People and Plants in the American Far West: Synthesizing Archaeobotanical Data from Oregon's Great Basin

    Jaime Kennedy

    Archaeobotanical data from sites in the Great Basin and surrounding areas have demonstrated the persistent and continuous presence of specific plant taxa in cultural features over millennia. In this talk, ...Read More

  • People and Places on the Dynamic Shoreline Landscape of Southern Puget Sound by Kate Shantry

    People and Places on the Dynamic Shoreline Landscape of Southern Puget Sound

    Kate Shantry

    This talk is an overview of Kate’s landscape study concerning the Osceola Mudflow Event ca. 5700 years ago. A debris flow from Mount Tahoma [Rainier] dramatically changed the landscape of ...Read More

  • Archaeological Chronometrics by Obsidian Hydration Dating by Alexander (Sandy) Rogers

    Archaeological Chronometrics by Obsidian Hydration Dating

    Alexander (Sandy) Rogers

    Obsidian hydration dating (OHD) is a chronometric method based on measuring the water absorbed through a fresh surface of obsidian, and is widely used in the inter-mountain west. The method ...Read More

  • Urban Archaeology in the City of Salem by Kimberli Fitzgerald

    Urban Archaeology in the City of Salem

    Kimberli Fitzgerald

    Archaeology practiced within an Urban Setting is often more challenging than archaeology practiced in more rural settings because of the challenges to excavation (i.e. there’s lots of asphalt, existing utilities, ...Read More

  • Truth, Reconciliation and Ground Penetrating Radar: The Role of Archaeologists in Recent Research on Indian Residential/Boarding Schools by Colin Grier

    Truth, Reconciliation and Ground Penetrating Radar: The Role of Archaeologists in Recent Research on Indian Residential/Boarding Schools

    Colin Grier

    The summer of 2021 produced a series of geophysical studies at Indian Residential Schools in Canada. The results — the discovery of hundreds of unmarked and/or undocumented graves — were ...Read More

  • The Landscape of Klamath Rock Basin Art by Robert David

    The Landscape of Klamath Rock Basin Art

    Robert David

    Robert David’s presentation is based on his dissertation research, in which he considers how rock art imagery in the Klamath Basin served different purposes within three different socially-constructed contexts. Specifically, ...Read More

  • The Vulva Monologues: 'Female' signs in the Upper Paleolithic by Melanie Chang

    The Vulva Monologues: 'Female' signs in the Upper Paleolithic

    Melanie Chang

    Binary models of sex and gender are often uncritically applied in paleoanthropology. In the Upper Paleolithic, abstract representations ranging from simple bifurcating lines to overt representations of secondary sex characteristics ...Read More

  • Kernels of Truth in Archaeological Temporal Frequency Analysis by William A. Brown

    Kernels of Truth in Archaeological Temporal Frequency Analysis

    William A. Brown

    Temporal frequency analysis (TFA) broadly refers to statistical tools both for the description of temporal fluctuations in the abundance of recovered archaeological material and for the construction of probability distribution ...Read More

  • Reflections on the Past 40 Years of Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest by Virginia L. Butler

    Reflections on the Past 40 Years of Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest

    Virginia L. Butler

    Butler reviews changes she has witnessed in the practice of archaeology in the Pacific Northwest since her 1975 field school at Lind Coulee. While enormous changes have occurred in technology ...Read More

  • Investigating Ancient Cooking Practices in Northern Alaska: Molecular and Isotopic Analysis of Pottery Residues and Hearth Sediments by Tammy Y. Buonasera

    Investigating Ancient Cooking Practices in Northern Alaska: Molecular and Isotopic Analysis of Pottery Residues and Hearth Sediments

    Tammy Y. Buonasera

    Animal fats used as food and as fuel preserve exceptionally well in may Alaskan sites, even where bone preservation is poor. Focusing on recent collaborative work with Shelby Anderson and ...Read More

  • Intertidal Fishing Weirs: “Go-Help-Yourself” Subsistence on the Oregon Coast by Bradley Bowden

    Intertidal Fishing Weirs: “Go-Help-Yourself” Subsistence on the Oregon Coast

    Bradley Bowden

    Intertidal fishing weirs were used by indigenous Oregonians as an efficient and dependable method of procuring several fish species. Investigation of fishing weirs is challenging due to their locations in ...Read More

  • Pulling at the Thread: Why Climate Change Driven Relocation is such a Difficult Problem to Solve by Elizabeth Marino and Dennis Davis

    Pulling at the Thread: Why Climate Change Driven Relocation is such a Difficult Problem to Solve

    Elizabeth Marino and Dennis Davis

    This talk will discuss the climate change planning in Alaska. We will first show a series of photographs by Inupiat photographer and Shishmaref resident Dennis Davis. Following we will talk ...Read More

  • Collective Action to Reduce Wildfire Risk Across Land Ownerships in the Pacific Northwest by Susan Charnley

    Collective Action to Reduce Wildfire Risk Across Land Ownerships in the Pacific Northwest

    Susan Charnley

    The past two decades have made it clear that there is a need to increase the resilience of fire-adapted forest landscapes to wildfire. One part of the equation is to ...Read More

 
 
 

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