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Archaeology First Thursday, May 5

April 28, 2022 at 5:59 pm · Filed under Lecture ·Tagged , , , ,

Indigenous Women and Pre-Contact Rock Art in the Northern Plains Region

Please join us Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 4 p.m. for our monthly PSU Archaeology First Thursday Speaker series for a talk by Emily Van Alst (Indiana University).

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/

Petroglyphs in the Northwest Plains region of the United States transmit Indigenous knowledge across generations and require interpretations rooted in Indigenous ontologies to fully contextualize and understand these images. An often-overlooked aspect of this type of research is the role that Indigenous women played in the creation of these images. This talk, which is grounded in methods of Indigenous archaeology and rock art research, will explore how we can improve our interpretations of rock art images by foregrounding Indigenous knowledge, and in particular, Indigenous women’s voices and experiences.

Emily is of Sihasapa Lakota descent. She graduated from Yale University in 2016 with a double major in archaeology and anthropology. Her research focuses on indigenous women’s participation in the creation and use of rock art in pre-contact society on the Northern Plains. She uses the lenses of indigenous archaeology, feminist archaeology, and indigenous feminism to frame her work within a broader social context.

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Archaeology First Thursday, April 7

April 1, 2022 at 9:56 pm · Filed under Lecture ·Tagged , ,

People and Plants in the American Far West: Synthesizing Archaeobotanical Data from Oregon’s Great Basin

Please join us Thursday, April 7, 2022, at 4 p.m. for our monthly PSU Archaeology First Thursday Speaker series for a talk by Jaime Kennedy (University of Oregon).

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/

Archaeobotanical data from sites in the Great Basin and surrounding areas have demonstrated the persistent and continuous presence of specific plant taxa in cultural features over millennia. In this talk, I will integrate diachronic datasets from several sites in the northern Great Basin to examine the role of plants in seasonal rounds, food preferences, and foraging decisions of people in the past. “

Bio: Jaime Kennedy (MS, 2010; PhD, 2018; University of Oregon) is the Interim Director of the Archaeological Research Division at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. The division works with its state and federal agency partners to support cultural resource management efforts throughout the state, operates archaeological field schools, and conducts grant-supported archaeological research. Jaime’s primary research interests are in the archaeology of the Great Basin and Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on the relationships between people and plants. She has analyzed archaeological plant remains from numerous sites in California, Oregon, and Washington, and published several of these studies in regional and national academic journals.”

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