Tag Archives: Archaeology

Who knows what lurks in the old bottles we dig up?

It’s exciting enough when archaeological digs produce finds like old bottles. Once in a while, there’s that super-rare find of a bottle that still has something in it. That’s both exciting and potentially dangerous, and the zone in which we find University of Idaho archaeologist Mark S. Warner and his colleague, the chemist Ray von […]
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State grant awarded to research Chinese altar at Lone Fir Cemetery

On December 6, the Lone Fir Cemetery Foundation announced that it had received an Oregon Heritage Grant to conduct community-based archaeological research at the area called “Block 14” on cemetery maps, also known as the historic Chinese section of the cemetery. Source: State grant awarded to research Chinese altar at Lone Fir Cemetery

Accessing the past carefully: a guide to archaeology in Oregon

Oregon State Archaeologist John Pouley. He lays out the laws and suggestions guiding archaeological exploration of Oregon’s long-ago past. The place we now call Oregon has a rich human history, much of it unrecorded. But there are clues to the events of thousands and thousands of years of humans occupying the state, and sometimes the […]
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New evidence suggests Oregon may be North America’s oldest human occupation site

Patrick O’Grady and other archaeologists at the University of Oregon have discovered new evidence suggesting that Oregon could be North America’s oldest site of human occupation. Source: New evidence suggests Oregon may be North America’s oldest human occupation site

Archaeological finds suggest human habitation in Oregon 18,000 years ago – OPB’s Think Out Loud

Oregon archaeologists have found evidence of human occupation in the state that dates back more than 18,000 years. University of Oregon students and faculty working at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Harney County found stone tools and fragments of camel and bison teeth beneath a 15,000-year-old layer of volcanic ash. Radiocarbon dating of the tooth […]
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Archaeologists find new evidence in Southern Oregon that suggests human habitation 18,000 years ago

Archaeologists have new evidence suggesting that humans occupied Oregon more than 18,000 years ago. This makes it one of the oldest known sites of human occupation in North America. A 2023 radiocarbon dating analysis was made based on findings at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter near Burns, Oregon. The University of Oregon Archaeological Field School has […]
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OR archaeologists uncover evidence of what could be oldest human-occupied site in North America

Cooper’s Ferry in Western Idaho was thought to be the oldest-recorded archaeological site in the region, according to the BLM. An Oregon field research team has uncovered evidence that indicates humans roamed the state at least 18,000 years ago. This could be proof of North America’s oldest human-occupied site yet. Since 2011, the Bureau of […]
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Oregon could be oldest site of human occupation in North America, UO find indicates

A pre-historic stone tool unearthed by educators and students at the University of Oregon’s Archaeological Field School suggests that people were living in Oregon 18,000 years ago. That is far earlier than scholars previously thought, and more than 1,000 years before the Clovis culture, once seen as the oldest in the Americas. Source: Oregon could […]
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Testing yields evidence of human occupation 18,000 years ago in Oregon

Oregon archaeologists have found evidence suggesting humans occupied the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter outside of Riley, Oregon more than 18,000 years ago. University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History Archaeological Field School, led by archaeologist Patrick O’Grady, has been excavating at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter. Excavation has been occurring since 2011 under an official […]
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University of Oregon researchers investigate centuries-old shipwreck

The Santo Cristo De Burgos Ship was set to sail from Spain to the Philippines and Mexico. But the ship somehow sunk hundreds of miles off course on the coast of Astoria in 1693. Source: University of Oregon researchers investigate centuries-old shipwreck