People and Places on the Dynamic Shoreline Landscape of Southern Puget Sound with Kate Shantry
Please join us Thursday, March 3, 2022, at 4 p.m. for our monthly PSU Archaeology First Thursday Speaker series for a talk by Kate Shantry (Washington State University (WSU) – Vancouver) on People and Places on the Dynamic Shoreline Landscape of Southern Puget Sound.
We will meet virtually via zoom. Please follow this link to register for the talk: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/87524504421
Note that most First Thursday talks are recorded and will be available after the event. More information is available here: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/archaeology-first-thursdays/
This talk is an overview of Kate’s landscape study concerning the Osceola Mudflow Event ca. 5700 years ago in the southernmost portion of the Salish Sea. A debris flow from Mount Tahoma [Rainier] dramatically changed the landscape of what we know as Puget Sound. Shantry will talk about Indigenous perspectives, experimental archaeology, and a way forward for developing and implementing a predictive model that documents the lives of people in the dynamic Middle Holocene.
Kate Shantry is a Seattle-born professional archaeologist and Ph.D. Candidate at Washington State University, Vancouver. Her archaeological research concerns how indigenous people navigated waterways, cultivated resources, and made homes in the Pacific Northwest over time. She has a long cultural resources management history in the Northwest which influences her research.
PSU Anthropology Department 
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