(Cross-posted from my blog, where you can see a picture of some re-assembled Fort Vancouver pottery stuff...)
The Oregon Archaeological Society has free lectures on certain Tuesday nights, and a training program that is pretty inexpensive, as I recall.
The lectures can run *very* dry for the lay person, but they can also have their moments. The trainings tend to be a bit livelier, with guest speakers and demonstrations of flint knapping and other such things thrown in.
I saw a guy do a presentation on the analysis of pottery fragments found at the Fort Vancouver site. It was geeky in its depth and detail, but also kind of fascinating in the amount of information he could extrapolate from the various compositions and styles represented.
Excavations at the fort also recovered over 100,000 trade beads of over 150 varieties.
The lectures take place at OMSI, in Southeast Portland, and the training is at Portland Community College's Rock Creek Campus. The training takes place over the course of several Saturdays, beginning in February, I believe. One can attend one or two beginner's classes, or the whole series of 6 classes.
People who take these classes have a leg up in being chosen as volunteers for archaeological projects around the state.
The National Forest Service also uses volunteers who are members of the O.A.S. as "site monitors", who visit and report on conditions at hundreds, if not thousands, of sites of interest throughout the state.
I attended a couple of the trainings a few years ago and I enjoyed them.
It's still only $15 bucks for the first two sessions.
I was considering being a site monitor, but the training for that, though free, was in Vancouver, and I couldn't quite get it together that day, or something.
www.oregonarchaeological.org/
The Oregon Archaeological Society has free lectures on certain Tuesday nights, and a training program that is pretty inexpensive, as I recall.
The lectures can run *very* dry for the lay person, but they can also have their moments. The trainings tend to be a bit livelier, with guest speakers and demonstrations of flint knapping and other such things thrown in.
I saw a guy do a presentation on the analysis of pottery fragments found at the Fort Vancouver site. It was geeky in its depth and detail, but also kind of fascinating in the amount of information he could extrapolate from the various compositions and styles represented.
Excavations at the fort also recovered over 100,000 trade beads of over 150 varieties.
The lectures take place at OMSI, in Southeast Portland, and the training is at Portland Community College's Rock Creek Campus. The training takes place over the course of several Saturdays, beginning in February, I believe. One can attend one or two beginner's classes, or the whole series of 6 classes.
People who take these classes have a leg up in being chosen as volunteers for archaeological projects around the state.
The National Forest Service also uses volunteers who are members of the O.A.S. as "site monitors", who visit and report on conditions at hundreds, if not thousands, of sites of interest throughout the state.
I attended a couple of the trainings a few years ago and I enjoyed them.
It's still only $15 bucks for the first two sessions.
I was considering being a site monitor, but the training for that, though free, was in Vancouver, and I couldn't quite get it together that day, or something.
www.oregonarchaeological.org/
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Wed, January 9, 2008 - 7:43 PMNice link, though I was more interested in the events and non-training oriented lectures as I don't yet have the time to volunteer. Fun stuff. -
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Thu, January 10, 2008 - 9:21 AMFor those of you with time in the afternoons, PSU has a First Thursday lecture once a month on campus, room 41, Cramer Hall at 4p.
There is one today. I can't go :[
Greg Burtchard (National Park Service) will present:
"Environment, Prehistory and Archaeology of Mount Rainier National Park"
At Mount Rainier, ecologically-based models and available archaeological
data suggest that nearby populations have used Mount Rainier~Rs upper
elevation landscapes seasonally since at least the mid-Holocene. Burtchard
will review theoretical and ecological arguments regarding long-term use of
high elevation landscapes at Mount Rainier and the nearby Cascades, and will
summarize most recent archaeological efforts at the park. The talk
emphasizes recent research at Buck Lake on the mountain's northeastern flank
where results have provided new information on Holocene environmental
patterns; and on the onset of, and changing intensity in, human use of the
mountain.
As usual, the talk will be at 4:00 pm in Cramer Hall Room 41, on the PSU
campus. We look forward to seeing you at the first presentation of the new
year (held on the 2nd Thursday of the month, given the winter-holiday break
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Thu, January 10, 2008 - 12:37 PMMiss Mini , is there a schedule of other upcoming lectures online somewhere?
And, does "prehistory" simply mean "before written history", which, for this area, could be as late as the late 19th century, say?
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Making a detour to geology (!), there's a lecture at PSU about geology around Baker City this Friday night.
Schedule: Second Friday of the month...January 11, 2008 Friday 8 PM
- Location: Room S17, Cramer Hall, Portland State University, 1721 SW Broadway; between Montgomery and Mill. (Room S17 is on the sub-basement level of Cramer Hall, directly below the Geology Department's main office)
Dr. Vicki McConnell, Oregon State Geologist, Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI), will speak on the geology of the Baker County region. Watch this space for details to come...
gsoc.org/frisched.html
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Thu, January 10, 2008 - 1:57 PMYes, schedule for 1st Thurs below.
www.anthropology.pdx.edu/news_...08.htm
Prehistory means before writing, yes. Though perhaps a more accurate term is "precontact," since most if not all Native American groups retain oral traditions documenting their histories.
Thanks for the geo talk link!
MM
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