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PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Beginnings of State-based Paleoamerican archaeology in Washington:  Milestone events and finds in the Southern Plateau that have Transformed our Knowledge and the Practice of Northwest Archaeology since then.

9/26/2018

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Lind Coulee Site bison horns/skull excavations

The Beginnings of State-based Paleoamerican archaeology in Washington:  Milestone events and finds in the Southern Plateau that have Transformed our Knowledge and the Practice of Northwest Archaeology since then.
 
By Dr. David G. Rice,
Plateau Archaeologist



 This public program is intended to emphasize the dynamic nature of the archaeology discipline, and both of its scientific and humanistic aspects, in the search for the earliest Americans.  The main theme is to look at the start of the search for PaleoAmerican sites at State and local levels, and to identify key milestone events that have balanced these aspects over the past 70 years.


 DATE: Friday, October 12th , 2018

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to non-members, $5.00 for Students (please renew membership for 2018 and these programs at http://www.pnwas.org  and now through PayPal)
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Coming Out/Book Signing of Ed Carriere and Dale Croes’ Re-Awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry book

2/25/2018

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Coming Out/Book Signing of Ed Carriere and Dale Croes’ Re-Awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry book
 
And their Recent trip to work with Maori Weavers in New Zealand and presentation at a Wetland Archaeology Conference in France

By Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder
and
Dale Croes, Wet Site Archaeologist, W.S.U. and Director of PNWAS


 It has finally happened, the three year project that we have presented annually at PNWAS is now being published into a book that we want to share with you at this PNWAS book coming out/signing party. We also want to share too our recent trips to present our work to New Zealand Maori at their National Weavers Gathering and to a Wetland Archaeology Conference in France. Use the enclosed PNWAS discount form to order the book as a current member of PNWAS. If you are not current, send in the enclosed membership form as you order your book through the Journal of Northwest Anthropology. Sure look forward to sharing the book with you covering this experimental archaeological work we call Generationally-Linked Archaeology. We will have a cake to cut and celebrate together. Thank you for your support and involvement with Ed’s and my efforts to promote culture and archaeology through the past years.

DATE: Friday, April 13th, 2018

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to non-members, $5.00 for Students (please renew membership for 2018 and these programs at http://www.pnwas.org  and now through PayPal)
Refreshments provided (Please bring cookies/snacks to share with the beverages).
 

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Eagle Gorge Terrace: An Upland Hunting Camp and its Place in the Economic Lives of the Precontact Puget Salish

12/13/2017

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 Examples of retouched lithic tools from Eagle Gorge Terrace (a-r) and Tualdad Altu (aa-rr),
showing the strong morphological similarities between tools of the same functional type
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 Eagle Gorge Terrace: An Upland Hunting Camp and its Place in the Economic Lives of the Precontact Puget Salish
 
By Dr. James C. Chatters
Applied Paleoscience


Outside of the lowland rivers and saltwater margins of the Salish Sea, field camps of the Northwest Coast’s logistically organized foragers are extremely rare.  Chronologically delimited occupations with faunal remains are even more so. 
 
The Eagle Gorge Terrace site (45-KI-1083), located along the Green River in the foothills of the Cascade Range, is one such site—a hunting camp containing a specialized tool kit and a large collection of calcined (burnt) faunal remains dating to the sixth or seventh century AD.  Analysis of this assemblage and comparison with the approximately contemporary nearby village of Tualdad Altu (45-KI-59) demonstrates that upland hunters used a discrete subset of their culture’s technology in a highly focused effort to process meat and hides from some of the region’s largest land mammals.


DATE: Friday, February 9th, 2018

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to non-members, $5.00 for Students (please renew membership for 2018 and these programs at http://www.pnwas.org  and now through PayPal)
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Berkeley Rockshelter Site: Understanding the Late Holocene use of the Mount Rainier Area

10/25/2017

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Berkeley Rockshelter Site:
Understanding the Late Holocene use of the
Mount Rainier Area

 By Dr. Bradford W. Andrews
Pacific Lutheran University
and

Greg Burtchard
Retired Mt. Rainier National Park Archaeologist


Expanding on the recent Journal of Northwest Anthropology JONA 2016 article Berkeley Rockshelter Lithics, Understanding the Late Holocene Use of the Mount Rainier Area, this illustrated presentation will address two topics:
  1. What is currently known about the prehistoric use of Mount Rainier area, and
  2. What is the nature of activities that took place at the late Holocene Berkeley Rockshelter site situated at 5,600 feet on the northern flank of the mountain.
Greg Burtchard, who recently retired after 16 years as the Mount Rainier National Park archaeologist, will present his model for understanding long-term subsistence and settlement processes as they apply to Mount Rainier.
Working with forager-collector principles first developed by Lewis Binford (1980), and modified by Randall Schalk and Greg Cleveland (1983) to model temporal change in the Pacific Northwest, Burtchard considers the mountain’s basic environmental characteristics and its capacity to attract and sustain pre-contact hunters and gatherers.

As part of recent research in the Park, data recovered during test excavations at Berkeley Rockshelter, occupied from about 2,500 B.P. to contact, have been analyzed by Bradford Andrews, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University and some of his students.  Debitage and projectile points found at the rockshelter support the inference that late-stage flaking, for shaping and reworking projectile points and preforms, was a prominent activity at the site.

Andrews will summarize the results of this analysis, which supports the interpretation that it functioned primarily as a limited-task field or hunting camp, consistent with the late Holocene use of Mount Rainier as proposed in Burtchard’s model.

DATE: Friday, December 1st, 2017

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to Non-members, $5.00 for Students, Seniors and Mountaineers members  (please renew membership for 2018 and these programs at
http://pnwas.org and now through PayPal)

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STANDING TOGETHER, OUR 2017 CANOE JOURNEY EXPERIENCE

9/29/2017

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 Paddling the Blue Heron into the Northern Salish Sea
 STANDING TOGETHER,  OUR 2017 CANOE JOURNEY EXPERIENCE
PADDLE TO WE WAI KAI (CAPE MUDGE)
AND
WEI WAI KUM (CAMPBELL RIVER) B.C. CANADA


By Dr. Thomas W Murphy Chair, Dept. of Anthropology
Edmonds Community College
and other Faculty, Students, Staff and Canoe Family


We wanted you to hear an amazing adventure in Anthropology for eighteen students from Edmonds Community College (EdCC) during their summer class of 2017. Led by PNWAS member and lead faculty from EdCC, Dr. Thomas Murphy, conducted a highly unique Field School in Anthropology. Dr. Murphy organized his class to spend their eight week class visiting the Cultural Communities and environments, and studying plants and animals, of the Salish Sea as they paddled the Blue Heron Canoe. Leaving with their hosts, the Samish and Stillaguamish Tribe Canoe Families, they visited and potlatched among Salishan Communities—from the beach off EdCC to over 200 miles north, reaching the upper end of the Salish Sea, B.C. Canada.

The Samish and Stillaguamish generously shared their annual Tribal Canoe Journey with these students, knowing the educational value of direct participation, and shared the tribal networking until they reached We Wai Kai and Wei Wai Kum—the 2017 Kwakwakwa’wakw hosts of this year’s Canoe Journey. The Blue Heron canoe traveled along Coast Salish territories through the San Juan Islands where they were joined by the Samish, Stillguamish, and other canoe families. They paddled inside the east coast of Vancouver Island to the southern portion of Kwakwakwa'wakw territory. Each night First Nations hosted their guests and each shared protocol of songs, dances, and stories, often in traditional village sites. 

Come hear from students, faculty, staff, and canoe family members as they share what they learned as they stood together with 85 canoe families on this truly epic journey and paramount cultural and educational experience.


DATE: Friday, October 13th, 2017

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to Non-members, $5.00 for Students, Seniors and Mountaineers members  (please renew membership for 2018 and these programs at
http://pnwas.org and now through PayPal)

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Darwin and The Inkas in Pacific South America: Recent Impressions from the Galapagos Islands and Peru

4/4/2017

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Dale and Jaered Croes in front of the Sacasyhuaman Fortress above Cuzco.  Note the amazing stone masonry.

DARWIN AND THE INKAS IN PACIFIC SOUTH AMERICA
Recent impressions from
the Galapagos Islands and Peru

By Dale Croes, PNWAS Director
Archaeologist and Anthropologist



Dr. Dale Croes recently was treated to a South American trip by his son, Jaered Croes.  They visited the Galapagos Islands that Darwin explored on his historic voyage of the Beagle as a 26 year old Naturalist.  Then we toured several Inkan ruins in Peru, witnessing this ancient civilization and their centers.
 
As suggested at our Winter PNWAS meeting, the group agreed they would like to hear more about the anthropological and archaeological impressions Dr. Croes had while on this trip, especially about what Charles Darwin experienced and the archaeology of the Inka witnessed. We also will explore the amazing archaeological centers of the Inkan civilization.  The stone masonry in their monumental construction is unsurpassed in workmanship and building efforts.


DATE: Friday, May 26th, 2017

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to Non-members, $5.00 for Students, Seniors and Mountaineers members  (please renew membership for 2017 and these programs at
http://pnwas.org and now through PayPal)

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An Ancient Coast Salish Canoe from the Green River:                  A Project Update

1/16/2017

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 The S.deXwit being recovered from the banks of the Green River in 1963. Photo courtesy Muckleshoot Tribe Archives #2006.40.03.

 Join PNWAS for our LATE WINTER MEETING!
An Ancient Coast Salish Canoe from the Green River:
A Project Update

By
Peter Lape, Warren KingGeorge, Laura
Phillips, and Sven Haakanson, University of
Washington, Burke Museum


 The Burke Museum’s collections include a wooden dugout canoe that was found eroding out of the banks of the Green River in Kent, WA in 1963. With support from a John Gardener grant from the Traditional Small Craft Association, Burke and Muckleshoot Tribe scholars are creating detailed 3D model of the canoe, radiocarbon dating of the hull and fiber repairs, creating a custom storage cradle, and recording histories of Coast Salish river canoes from tribal elders.
We will present our results to date.


DATE: Friday, March 17th, 2017

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to Non-members, $5.00 for Students, Seniors and Mountaineers members  (please renew membership for 2017 and these programs at
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Yama, Washington: A 19th and early 20th Century Japanese Transnational Community on Bainbridge Island

10/23/2016

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  Join PNWAS for our WINTER MEETING!
 Yama, Washington: A 19th and early 20th Century Japanese Transnational Community on Bainbridge Island
By
Dr. Caroline Hartse and Professor Floyd Aranyosi, Olympic College


As part of a collaborative, multi-organizational archaeology project, Olympic College is conducting an archaeological field school at the historic site of Yama and Nagaya, on Bainbridge Island. The 2016 field season (July and August) is the second year of this three year project. Come hear project representatives discuss the project and the findings of the 2016 season and plans for the future.
For more information about the Yama Project, please visit their website here:
www.olympic.edu/anthropology/yama-project

Yama Tour Handout

DATE: Friday, December 9th, 2016

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to Non-members, $5.00 for Students, Seniors and Mountaineers members  (please renew membership for 2017 and these programs at
http://pnwas.org and now through PayPal)

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September 28th, 2016

9/28/2016

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 Join PNWAS for our FALL MEETING!
Sharing Ancient Basketry around the World
By Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder & Master Basketmaker
and Dr. Dale Croes, Wet Site Archaeologist, W.S.U.
DATE: Friday, October 14th, 2016

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to Non-members, $5.00 for Students, Seniors and Mountaineers members  (please renew membership for 2017 and these programs at
http://pnwas.org and now through PayPal)

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CWU and Russian excavations of a site dating to the Last Glacial Maximum (26-20,000 cal bp) in the Trans-Baikal Region of Southern Siberia.                                                          

4/3/2016

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Join PNWAS for our SPRING MEETING:
CWU and Russian excavations of a site dating to the Last Glacial Maximum (26-20,000 cal bp) in the Trans-Baikal Region of Southern Siberia.
   By Drs. Ian Buvit & Steven Hackenberger, Central Washington University

DATE: Friday, April 22nd, 2016

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm

PLACE: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 in the Cascade Room

COST:  FREE to members, $10.00 to Non-members, $5.00 for Students, Seniors and Mountaineers members  (please renew membership for 2016 and these programs at
http://pnwas.org and now through PayPal)

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