Mike Taylor

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Buffalo Bill's Defunct

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 1:31 pm
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....
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America's Oldest Artifact: Another First for Paisley Cave

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 5:03 pm
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 radioca...
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Cupules on the Columbia

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 5:11 pm
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 r...
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Kennewick Man II: Anthropologist Argues That Corps of Engineers Acted Properly

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 9:22 am
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 ...
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Kennewick Man II Debate Continues

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 7:49 pm
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 var comments_story_id = 717620; ...
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Ancient Images: Deschutes River Rock Art Video

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Sep 13, 2009, 1:30 pm
The view from this small Oregon rock shelter is gorgeous...coupled with its spiritual energy it must have inspired hundreds of generations of visitors as they sought its power. Located above the fast...
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Kennewick Man Update-Deja Vu All Over Again

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 11:11 am
The parallels with the first Kennewick Man event continue with the second set of human remains found washed out of the bank of the Columbia River last month. National Public Radio's station KPLU ...
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Rock Art Site Etiquette

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 9:10 am
Visiting a rock art site can be a great experience! If you're privileged to go to a site here are some guidelines that will help you protect the site while you enjoy it. Treat th...
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Breaking News! Second Kennewick Man May Have Been Discovered

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 12:53 pm
In a story eerily like the first Kennewick Man's, a second set of old bones has been found washed out of the bank of the Columbia River near the town of Kennewick, WA. The bones are now housed at ...
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Creativity Unleashed!

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 9:11 pm
The Washougal pedestrian tunnel itself is completely engineered and construction is well underway...but what about the Columbia Plateau rock-art-inspired panels that are a major part of its creative d...
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"Passage to the Columbia"

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Aug 15, 2009, 6:55 pm
...those words capture the City of Washougal's vision for the new pedestrian tunnel that will re-link the core of the city to its waterfront on the Columbia River for the first time in over 40 yea...
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Preserved for Over 1000 Years! Range Creek Ranch, Utah

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Aug 1, 2009, 10:34 am
300 archaeological sites, in one 4200 acre area, untouched by man for over 1000 years? Sounds unlikely, but that's exactly what exists on Range Creek Ranch in a remote part of Utah. Owned and pro...
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Chinook Nation Progresses as Leaders Testify in Washington D.C.

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Jul 25, 2009, 8:45 am
July 15, 2009 may be recorded as one of the most important days in Chinook Indian Nation history. The day that Chinook leaders testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources in Washington ...
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Petroglyph Team Seeks Images at Columbia Hills State Park

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Jul 18, 2009, 1:06 pm
Members of the Washougal Petroglyph Team, lead by artist Rex Ziak (at left in photo), headed to Columbia Hills State Park (formerly Horsethief Lake State Park) on Friday, July 17 to gain experience wi...
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Columbia Plateau Rock Art to be Featured in New Pedestrian Tunnel

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Jul 10, 2009, 5:44 pm
I'm excited! The city of Washougal, WA has started work on a new pedestrian underpass that will re-link the core of the city to its historic waterfront. PLUS they plan to honor the native people a...
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Independence Day With Lewis & Clark

Mike Taylor posted an article on - Jul 3, 2009, 4:36 pm
Musing about Independence Day and how lucky Americans are to live in a free country (I mean really, we could be Hondurans or Iranians...no offense if you are) I started to wonder what Lewis and Clark ...
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