WASHINGTON
Evidence of Ancient Horse Hunting on the Columbia Plateau: Methow Conservancy First Tuesdays
mar, 05 mar
|Winthrop
Join the Methow Conservancy and the Wenatchee River Institute to learn about new evidence of hunting the extinct North American horse.
Horario y ubicación
05 mar 2024, 19:00 – 20:30
Winthrop, 414 Riverside Ave, Winthrop, WA 98862, USA
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Evidence of Ancient Horse Hunting on the Columbia Plateau
When: Tuesday, March 5 at 7pmWhere: Zoom - Click here to join
Join the Methow Conservancy and the to learn about new evidence of hunting the extinct North American horse.Wenatchee River Institute
Recent re-analysis of selected artifacts from a 1974 archaeological salvage excavation at the pre-contact Rock Island Overlook site, 45CH204, in central Washington indicates that cultural deposits are much older than previously reported. Projectile point chronology and obsidian hydration dating suggest the Rock Island Overlook site was first occupied 13 to 16 thousand years ago at the end of the last Ice Age (Pleistocene). The assemblage also contains evidence of hunting now extinct Pleistocene horses. Come learn more about these ancient horses from Terry Ozbun on March 5!
Terry Ozbun is a Senior Archaeologist at Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc. (AINW), and has worked in central Washington as an archaeologist for…