General Meetings:  Bimonthly meetings for members and visitors are held on the 3rd Thursday of alternate months from September through May. Meetings are meant to be both educational and entertaining and give opportunities for people with common interests to get acquainted. Note the location information carefully, as some meetings will be a hybrid of in-person and  Zoom Video Conference, while others will be via Zoom only. 

Upcoming Presentations

    • 28 Mar 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • OSU-Cascades Obsidian Hall, Rm 207 and Zoom

    Click HERE to register for Zoom link.

       

    Kate McDonough and Richie Rosencrance


    Abstract:  For the last nine years the University of Oregon Archaeology Field School has conducted excavations at the Connley Caves in central Oregon. This talk shares an update on their most recent fieldwork and plans for 2024. Katelyn and Richie will also discuss their new edited volume (co-edited with Jordan Pratt, Texas A&M University) titled Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West. This 14-chapter volume provides the most comprehensive overview of archaeological research into late Pleistocene and early Holocene technologies in far western North American in over a decade. It focuses on the relationship between stemmed and fluted point technologies in the region, which has recently risen to the forefront of debate about the initial settlement of the Americas. 


    Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West is now available for preorder on the University of Utah Press website: https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/current-perspectives-on-stemmed-and-fluted-technologies-in-the-american-far-west/

    Bios:  

    Katelyn McDonough is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s Archaeology Field School at the University of Oregon. She is an environmental archaeologist interested in long-term relationships between people, foodways, and landscapes. Much of her ongoing research focuses on people’s interactions with plants and changing environments during and since the late Pleistocene in North America.

    Richie Rosencrance is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and an instructor at the Archaeology Field School run by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. His research focuses broadly on hunter-gatherer technological innovation in the deep past, chronology building, lithic procurement strategies, and archaeology of the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau.

    • 16 May 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Larkspur Community Center, Room TBD

    ASCO is Celebrating its 30th Anniversary!

       
          

      

    ASCO has been busy!


    Please join us to celebrate 30 years of presentations, stewardship, outreach, and community!  Additional activities are TBD.


    Location:  Larkspur Community Center   NOTE change in location!


    Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Past Presentations

5 Feb 2024 Know Puzzles: Puzzling Out the Past by Eileen Gose
4 Jan 2024 Survivance and the Deep Great Basin Past by Dr. David Hurst Thomas
16 Nov 2023 Exploring Purpose and Context: Spirit Power, Doctoring, and Gambling Medicine in Klamath Basin Rock Art by Dr. Robert David
18 Oct 2023 Great Basin Anthropological Conference
4 Oct 2023 Interactive Archaeology Presentation by Eileen Gose
21 Sep 2023 Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northern Great Basin
10 Sep 2023 Rock Art: More than Just Images by Eileen Gose
18 May 2023 Deschutes River Railroad War, 1909 - 1911 by Steve Lent
2 May 2023 Rock Art: More than Just Images by Eileen Gose
6 Apr 2023 Growing Up in the Ice Age: Were Children Drivers of Human Cultural Evolution? by Dr. April Nowell
16 Mar 2023 New Discoveries at the Cooper's Ferry Site in Western Idaho Push Projectile Technology Back to 16,000 years ago by Dr. Loren G. Davis
16 Feb 2023 The Roles and Research of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History Archaeology Field School by Katelyn McDonough
19 Jan 2023 12,600 Years of Perishable Technologies at Cougar Mountain Cave, Oregon by Richie Rosencrance
8 Dec 2022 Archaeology and the Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin & General Meeting
20 Oct 2022 Water and Wind: Paleoenvironmental and Archaeological Correlations at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter
22 Sep 2022 Evidence of Humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum
30 Jun 2022 Waldo Lake History, Precontact to Present Times
12 May 2022 The Dam Fiasco at Bull Flat
21 Apr 2022 Getting Blood From a Stone: Excavations at a Paleolithic Oasis in Jordan by Dr. April Nowell
17 Mar 2022 Wenas Creek Mammoth Dig by Patrick Lubinski
17 Feb 2022 15,000 Years of Great Basin Archaeology by Dennis Jenkins
3 Feb 2022 Oregon Historical Society presents: Centering Chinese History in Oregon: A panel discussion
13 Jan 2022 Connley Caves Talk by Katelyn Mcdonough
9 Dec 2021 Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northern Great Basin by Scott Thomas
14 Oct 2021 Archaeology of the Portland Area by Virginia Butler
30 Sep 2021 All Member Meeting
29 Apr 2021 April Presentation: Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project and gold mining in the John Day area by Donn Hann
18 Mar 2021 March Presentation: Tribal member and Archaeologist Dr. Robert David educates us on Shamanism and myths from a Modoc petroglyph site
18 Feb 2021 February Presentation: Dr. Loren G. Davis on Cooper's Ferry Site in Idaho
21 Jan 2021 January Presentation: Paul Claeyssens on How Archaeological Work is Effected by Wildfire
10 Dec 2020 December Presentation: Dr. Virginia L. Butler on The Ciwicen Village Site in Port Angeles, WA
19 Nov 2020 November Presentation: Dr. Michel Waller provides insights into our human evolution ​by examining tool-use in different species
17 Sep 2020 September Presentation: Dr. Dennis Jenkins on his latest findings from ​15,000-year-old sites in the Oregon High Desert
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