[OR_Archaeology] OAS Mtg April 7th features lecturer from WSU

[Susan White]

Rigden Glaab, a doctoral student at Washington State University,
Pullman, will be the guest lecturer at the April 7th Oregon
Archaeological Society meeting. 

Glaab*s work is focused on the West Tavaputs Plateau of north central
Utah.  This area is uniquely situated on numerous drainages that flow
into Nine Mile Canyon, a hot spot of continued oil and gas expansion.
There is evidence in this area of significant, dynamic ecological and
social changes that occurred during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
(10,000 B.P.-1400 B.P.). These changes required social reorganization
and population movement adaptation by the indigenous Intermountain
Regional hunter and gatherers, of which Glaab is finding evidence in the
analysis of over 24 archaeological sites and 33 isolated artifacts.  

Glaab*s project stands to contribute substantial information on
prehistoric population behavior in the context of environmental
diversity. How do people respond to change? What are the underlying
behavioral mechanisms? What resilient trends from the West Tavaputs
Plateau can be extrapolated to understand broader patterns of human
behavior?

 Glaab has worked as a project archaeologist in Utah, and has extensive
experience conducting settlement pattern surveys and excavations on
Mesoamerican archaeological sites in Belize; his interests include
hunter/gatherer material culture, settlement pattern studies, and
Resilience Theory. 

The presentation is at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) at
7:45 PM, and is free and open to the public. The talk is preceded at 7
PM by a general business meeting, which is also open to the public 

See www.oregonarchaeological.org or call 503-727-3507 for more
information.