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The Modoc War of the 1870s gets lots of attention from historians, archaeologists, and just folks. It was a major episode in the defeat of Native…
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The prevailing theory until lately was that humans arrived in North America on foot... across the Bering Land Bridge, before polar ice melted and covered…
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There's a good chance that if you set a shovel to the ground in a place where people have lived for a long time, you'll find SOME kind of artifact. This…
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When Charles Applegate moved into his house in Yoncalla, he probably was not thinking much about the year 2017. Because Applegate moved in in 1852, and…
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When we talk about "unearthing history," it's quite literal for archaeologists. And while the professionals supervise the work, there's room for amateurs…
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Untrained eyes will only see a wooded hillside. But the people of the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology--SOULA--travel with trained…
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Lumps of beeswax were offered by Native Americans in trade with white explorers along the Oregon Coast centuries ago. The explorers wondered where the…
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We have mixed feelings in our country about refugees who arrive on our shores seeking a safe place far from wars. But we forget that human beings in our…
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You think of archaeology, you think of shovels... digging in the ground is what recovers artifacts. But technology helps in covering broader areas, like…
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The idea of an American West that is timeless and unchanging stands in sharp contrast to the social reality.Over the past two centuries, drastic changes…