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New finds from the Skeena River near Gitwangak

Unusual serrated stone tool from Gitwangak area site, perhaps used for cedar processing. Source: CBC There’s a nice audio interview and slide show from the CBC with Jenny Lewis of Kleanza Consul… more →

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New finds from the Skeena River near Gitwangak — 9 comments

qmackie wrote 4 months ago: Unusual serrated stone tool from Gitwangak area site, perhaps used for cedar processing. Source: CBC … more →

Tags: archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, CRM, Skeena river, Gitxsan, CBC, Kleanza, CN Rail, Gitwangak

Northwest Anthropological Conference 2013 - Portland March 27-30 — 2 comments

qmackie wrote 4 months ago: View of reconstructed Cathlapotle Chinookan Plankhouse relatively close to Portland. Click for sourc … more →

Tags: Anthropology, archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, Northwest Coast, Oregon, CAA, Canadian Archaeological Association, CRM, Northwest Anthropological Conference

Jobs on Haida Gwaii and at WSU — 3 comments

qmackie wrote 8 months ago: Archaeological Science on Haida Gwaii. So I’ve never posted job ads here before and I may neve … more →

Tags: archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, First Nations, Haida Gwaii, Northwest Coast, Teaching, Washington State, CHN, Council of the Haida Nation

BC Archaeology Forum 2012 is October 26-28 in Cranbrook, hosted by Ktunaxa Nation. — 3 comments

qmackie wrote 8 months ago: Screenshot of BC Archaeology Forum Website. It came up in comments a week or so ago on this blog, bu … more →

Tags: archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, First Nations, British Columbia, Conferences, bc archaeology forum, cranbrook, kootenays, Ktunaxa

Highlights from the Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi Project — 21 comments

qmackie wrote 1 year ago: Screenshot from the online document about Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi, showing his iron-bladed "man … more →

Tags: archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, Anthropology, First Nations, RBCM, Royal BC Museum, ice patches, Glaciers, Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi

Rock Art Talk in Vancouver BC, Wed. April 27 — 2 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Source: ASBC With hockey sidelined for a few days, there’s no excuse for Vancouverites not to … more →

Tags: Anthropology, archaeology, First Nations, Pictographs, rock art, Stein River

Imaging of Yukon Shipwrecks — 3 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: 3-D Sonar Scan of A.J. Goddard historic sternwheeler from Yukon. Source: Montreal Gazette. A year or … more →

Tags: archaeology, Underwater Archaeology, History, Historical Archaeology, shipwrecks, Yukon, Yukon River, Paddlewheelers, LIDAR

BC Archaeology Forum Program — 5 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: I’m a big supporter of the B.C. Archaeology forum and posted about it a while back.  The forum … more →

Tags: archaeology, Northwest Coast, Cultural Resource Management, First Nations, UBC, Conferences, bc archaeology forum, Musqueam

Bridge River Housepit Geophysics — 13 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Magnetometry map of the Bridge River Site housepits. Source: Prentiss et al. 2009 Wouldn’t it … more →

Tags: archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, technology, Fraser River, Geophysics, Household Archaeology, housepits, magnetometry, pithouses

Salmon species now knowable from vertebrae — 6 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Measurement of vertebral height. Source: Huber et al. 2011 Salmon are a crucial cultural keystone sp … more →

Tags: archaeology, Northwest Coast, Palaeontology, ABORIGINAL FISHERIES, Bones, Fish, Fishing, Salmon, zooarchaeology

Raven Bluff: another dated Alaskan fluted point site — 34 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Northern fluted point from Raven Bluff site. Source: flickr usr The Arctic Archaeologist. Some time … more →

Tags: Alaska, archaeology, Clovis, first peopling, Paleoindian, pre-Clovis, Raven Bluff site

BC Archaeology Forum 2010 — 3 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: I got the news yesterday that the annual B.C. Archaeology Forum has been scheduled.  The event will … more →

Tags: archaeology, Northwest Coast, British Columbia, CRM, Cultural Resource Management, public archaeology

Newsflash: Facebook is Good for Something — 10 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Lolota, the son of Zickchuse, - Snoqualmie - 1890 I’m a bit of a reluctant user of “face … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Archives, First Nations, History, Northwest Coast, Pics, facebook, Photographs, Photography

East Wenatchee Clovis Photo Gallery — 3 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: One of the East Wenatchee Clovis Points. Source: Washington State Historical Society. A few months a … more →

Tags: archaeology, Washington State, artifacts, Clovis, East Wenatchee, organic technology, Paleoindian, Richey Roberts

Yukon River Canoe Project 2009 Blog — 5 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Work on the log begins. Source: Yukon Canoe Project. I just found an interesting blog that traces a … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Pics, technology, canoes, First Nations, Kwanlin Dun First Nation, organic technology, Tlingit, Yukon

In-SHUCK-ch Cedar Bark Stripping Gallery — 2 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Pulling a cedar bark strip. The scarred face will heal in a highly characteristic way. Source: In-SH … more →

Tags: Anthropology, archaeology, Pics, Cedar, cmt, Culturally Modified Tree, First Nations, In-SHUCK-ch First Nation, organic technology

Yellowstone Ice Patch Atlatl Dart — 11 comments

qmackie wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Craig Lee holds atlatl dart shaft. Source: Dailycamera.com We’ve looked at the exciting fi … more →

Tags: archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, technology, atlatl, Colorado, Glaciers, ice patches, INSTAAR, Montaña

Images from the Likeness House — 15 comments

qmackie wrote 3 years ago: Cover of Dan Savard's new book. The RBCM caption reads: "This man has been variously ident … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Archives, First Nations, History, Northwest Coast, Pics, Photography, Public Education, RBCM

Mount St. Helens and experimental archaeology — 6 comments

qmackie wrote 3 years ago: Paul Kane: Mt. St. Helens erupting by night, 1847. Source: Wikipedia Today is the 30th anniversary o … more →

Tags: archaeology, Northwest Coast, technology, Washington State, bone technology, Bones, Experimental Archaeology, Mount St. Helens, Site formation processes


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