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Event Date & Time:
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 7:30pm
Location:
Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
New Insights into the Old Cordilleran Tradition
Fifty years ago, B. Robert Butler introduced the idea of the Old Cordilleran Culture, a distinctive flake-and-biface lithic industry which he believed to represent the initial human occupation of Northwest America. We now know that Old Cordilleran was not the earliest. But it is distinct from its predecessors, so much so that it likely represents a secondary immigration down the Pacific Coast from Beringia. Despite its long history in the archaeological lexicon, the Old Cordilleran has received little research because its near-exclusive occurrence in near-surface deposits has made it difficult to date and information on subsistence impossible to obtain. Within the last decade, however, the first large-scale data recovery excavations, coupled with technological advances in dating and residue analyses, have made it possible to understand when and how Old Cordilleran folk lived their lives. This lecture will discuss findings from the excavation of three Old Cordilleran components near Granite Falls, Washington, with emphasis on the age, lithic technology, subsistence, and adaptive strategy of these early occupants of our region.
Event Date & Time:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location:
Local History Lab (downstairs), Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
The Tla’amin-SFU Field School in Archaeology and Heritage Stewardship is a jointly planned and managed project that aims to train Tla’amin and SFU students in the investigation, documentation, protection, and sharing of Tla’amin history and cultural heritage. Our research integrates Tla’amin oral history with archaeology, historical documentation, and local knowledge. In our second field season we aimed to further understand Tla’amin settlement patterns, social relations, resource use, and intertidal management systems. Archaeological investigations focused on sites within Tla’amin traditional territory from Desolation Sound to Lang Bay. We have learned that the Tla’amin had substantial villages throughout the region and used abundant and diverse intertidal features to procure a wide range of marine resources.
Event Date & Time:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location:
Local History Lab (downstairs), Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
The Seymour Valley Archaeology Project documents logging camps and residential locations in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve in North Vancouver during the early 1900s. Research has focussed on three sites with evidence of Japanese. One camp appears to have been organized and laid out in a typical Japanese fashion, complete with a bathhouse. After its initial use as a logging camp, a small group of Japanese may have continued living here hidden in the woods until World War II. Another camp is likely evidence of Japanese transitioning to a typical Pacific Northwest logging camp style. A third camp was probably used for a variety of functions over the past 100 years, beginning as a Japanese camp around 1900 and used most recently as an outdoor marijuana growing operation. Several hundred artifacts provide clues to the daily life, alcohol consumption, health, and gender.
