[OR_Archaeology] First Thursday Presentation

[John Pouley]

Hello all-- 
Please join us this coming Thursday, March 7, for the First Thursday Presentation at PSU, Smith Center, Rm 296 at 4 pm. 


Dr. Loren Davis (Oregon State University) will present: 


Archaeology at Cooper's Ferry: A Late Pleistocene-Aged (?) site on the Lower Salmon River, Western Idaho


Since 2009, OSU archaeologists have conducted excavations at the Cooper's Ferry site in order to clarify issues related to the timing and nature of human occupation held in its stratified deposits. To deal with known problems of site disturbance and its effects on the associative context between cultural materials and radiocarbon dated samples, we have implemented and developed new methods of excavation and evaluation of site formation processes. Our careful approach is slow but appears to be working. Davis will discuss highlights from the last four field seasons and present more than two dozen new radiocarbon dates that are bringing the site's geochronology into focus. He will also present the discovery of many cultural features and discuss the coming summer's excavations.


Following the talk, the Anthropology Student Association will be hosting a reception in the Anthropology Department, Cramer 141 which you are all invited to. 


The OAS has also requested that I pass information about this talk on Tue, March 5. 





40,000 Years of Life & Death in a Spanish Cave (Free Talk!)

FREE ARCHAEOLOGY PRESENTATION-OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
7:30 PM, Tuesday, March 5 in the OMSI Auditorium (no ticket needed)

The Oregon Archaeological Society is pleased to sponsor the March 5, 2013 lecture titled:"40,000 Years of Life and Death in a Spanish Cave: Excavations in El Miron, Cantabria." The featured speaker is the distinguished Dr. Lawrence Guy Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico College of Arts and Sciences.

El Miron Cave, located in the Cantabrian Cordillera in Spain has been excavated by Professor Straus and a Spanish colleague since 1996. Scientifically discovered in 1903, but ignored by archeologists despite being surrounded by cave art sites, El Miron is a large cave with a strategic location.

The site has been the subject of numerous multidisciplinary studies of the climate, landscapes, human technology, subsistence, and artistic activity that have resulted in dozens of publications in Europe and the U.S. Major discoveries have included dated portable art objects, rock engravings, an associated human burial, evidence of human occupation and livestock stabling, and ceramic and metal technology. 

The presentation is at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) and is free and open to the public. A general business meeting begins at 7 PM, followed by the lecture at approximately 7:30 PM.







-- 
Virginia L. Butler 
Department of Anthropology
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207
503.725.3303 ( tel:503.725.3303 )
virginia at pdx.edu
http://web.pdx.edu/~virginia/
 
 
John O. Pouley
Oregon SHPO
Assistant State Archaeologist
725 Summer St NE Suite C
Salem, OR 97301
(503) 986-0675 Office
(503) 480-9164 Cell
(503) 986-0793 Fax
john.pouley at state.or.us
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