OAS Events

The next OAS General Meeting is April 2 at 7 p.m.  

Special guest lecturer Dr. Pat O’Grady, speaking on

“Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Transition:
Closing One Book to Start Another”

 

Archaeological research at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter has been ongoing since 2009. OAS and Burns Bureau of Land Management (BLM) combined forces for the first two years to survey the site and surrounds, establishing a firm Paleoamerican timeline for the locality through numerous Western Stemmed projectile points. OAS significantly enhanced our understanding of the great antiquity of the site as citizen scientists, excavating side-by-side with University of Oregon field school students from 2011 through 2023 through the Harney Archaeological Research Program. The challenge over that period was to firmly establish the relationship between stone tools, volcanic tephra, and AMS 14C-dated tooth fragments from extinct fauna in the deepest deposits of the rockshelter. We present our evidence for the 17 ka to 18 ka occupation of Rimrock Draw to the Society that contributed so passionately to that effort and talk about the steps that lie ahead.

The lecture will be available on Zoom for OAS members. There will also be a live meeting at OMSI that will show the Zoom feed.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is located at
1945 SE Water Ave. Portland, OR 97214-3354 at 7P.M.

Recordings of meetings will be available to the general public on the OAS YouTube channel one week after the meeting date. Visit the OAS YouTube Channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcaApNDyXOz2W6tsiWTPZw/

OAS Free Public Lecture Speaker Series 2023-2024

September 5, 2023
Dr. Loren Davis, OSU  
“How New Discoveries at Cooper’s Ferry
Increase our Knowledge of Early Pacific Northwest Peoples”

October 3, 2023   
Scott Williams  
“The Beeswax Wreck: A Manila Galleon in Oregon”

November 7, 2023   
D. Clark Wernecke  
“The Gault Site and the Peopling of the Americas”

December 5, 2023   
Mark Willis  
“Technology and Archaeology:  Innovations in recording rock art
and other archaeological phenomena from around the world”

January 2, 2024   
Haden Kingrey (OAS Jones Scholarship recipient)
“The Invisible Season: Identifying spring root processing with starch grain analysis at an early Holocene rabbit drive site (LSP-1; 35LK3735)”

February 6, 2024   
Richie Rosencrance  
“12,600 years of Technology at Cougar Mountain Cave, Oregon”

March 5, 2024   
Dr. Doug Wilson  
“Historic Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest”

April 2, 2024   
Dr. Pat O’Grady  
“Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Transition:
Closing One Book to Start Another”

May 7, 2024   
David Kaiser  
“DStretch Analysis of the Deadmond Buffalo Robe”

 

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