Current Stuff & Calendar
August: Summer projects continue.
*Community College Class by the Institute for Archaeological Studies has been moved to the Woodburn Site due to high water tables at the McMinnville Sites.
* 1st: Scuba dive at Ivory Hole yields a rib, part of a pelvis, and a 26 inch chunk of a HUGE mammoth tusk.
July: Summer projects commence.
* 19th, 20th & 27th: The Oregon Youth Conservation Corps from Educational Recreational Adventures cleared the roads and site areas for access....what a terrific job!
* 20th: Educational Recreational Adventures crew members finds a humerus from an extinct beaver!
* 22nd: SCUBA Survey of river bottom at McMinnville Sites yields bison tooth, tusk fragment and unidentified cervid tooth.
* Continue annual survey of the rivers for fossil and artifact finds.
June: Site preparation, planning and coordination for the summer dig.
May 20th: Guest speaker, McMinnville Kiwanis.
May 10th: Updates to "current" chapter.
May: Outline summer dig proposal to the City of McMinnville. Coordinate with the Institute for Archaeological Studies, line up local resources.