Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 13:33
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Early Human Settlement in Arctic Alaska

I found this on the UofO website. Turns out that the same site you are visiting is the same one that I heard through the grape vine at home... Patrick O-Grady also teaches at Lane Community. No wonder why this story struck a familiar chord! Hope you have fun...

"In 2010, the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School will return to the Sheep Mountain Clovis site, Paisley Caves, and initiate new excavations at Dirty Shame Rockshelter. The Sheep Mountain site is only the third in Oregon to produce multiple fluted points, documenting human activity at the late Pleistocene early Holocene interface.

The field school has been conducting research at Paisley Caves under the direction of Dr. Dennis L. Jenkins, who has supervised and directed the UO field school since 1989. Patrick O'Grady has been supervising operations at Sheep Mountain for two seasons."

Best Regards, Brin the Intern at ANI

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 07:02

Karl Horeis

Hi Brin! Thanks for the note (and great job on the article in the ArcticSounder. We now have chosen the students who will join us so maybe you
can interview them for a follow up?)
It's neat that you are familiar with Paisley Caves. We really enjoyed
our visit there. I'm excited to meet up with the archaeologists on our
Alaska project and get their take on the history of early Oregon and how
it fits with Alaska and the Bering Land Bridge.
So hey, I passed through Anchorage last night. That's where you are,
right? I think my luggage is still there. I hope it finds its way up to
me in Fairbanks soon.
Take care Brin - let's talk soon about a follow up article!
-Karl

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 14:58

Karl Horeis

Hi Brin! Thanks for the note (and great job on the article in the Arctic Sounder. We now have chosen the students who will join us so maybe you can interview them for a follow up?)It's neat that you are familiar with Paisley Caves. We really enjoyed our visit there. I'm excited to meet up with the archaeologists on our Alaska project and get their take on the history of early Oregon and how it fits with Alaska and the Bering Land Bridge.
So hey, I passed through Anchorage last night. That's where you are, right? I think my luggage is still there. I hope it finds its way up to me in Fairbanks soon.
Take care Brin - let's talk soon about a follow up article!
-Karl