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Mystery, intrigue, petroglyphs, the Columbia River Gorge...what else could anyone interested in archaeology and fiction ask for?
Just check out the cover...stylized Pacific Northwest rock art galore.
Vancouver, WA author Sheila Simonson has blended...
Dr. Dennis Jenkins and the team working at Paisley Cave in Oregon can now claim to have found the oldest known artifact in the Americas.
The tool is a bone scrapper that has been definitively radiocarbon dated at 14, 230 years, significantly older...
Upriver of Vancouver, Washington the Columbia River bank is edged with thousands of rounded basalt boulders.
Ripped from the up-river bedrock thousands of years ago by massive ice-age floods these rocks, once part of the volcanic landscape, were...
In a Seattle Times opinion piece Dr. James Nason, a retired University of Washington anthropology professor and emeritus curator at the Burke Museum (where the original Kennewick Man is kept), argues that the Corps of Engineers is properly handling the...
Two bits of recent news on the newly discovered Kennewick Man II bones...
From the Tri-City Herald, Sept. 15, 2009
Anthropologist to study jawbone found in river
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The Army Corps of Engineers plans to...
