Welcome to the June Frison Chapter of the Wyoming Archaeology Society. UPCOMING EVENTS, INCLUDING GUEST SPEAKERS AND LOCATIONS:
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REMINDER, IT'S TIME TO PAY YOUR MEMBERSHIP DUES!
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Hello everyone, Happy New Year! The first meeting of the year will be Tuesday January 10, 2012 at 7 pm in the Anthropology building. As per usual we will be having dinner at Altitude at 5:30 - come and enjoy. Presenter: Dr. Danny Walker
Title: The Fort Laramie Quartermaster Dump 1994-2011: One Hundred and Twelve Years of Riverbank Erosion and Stabilization Archaeological investigations at the Fort Laramie Quartermaster Dump were first conducted in 1994. Those investigations revealed a wealth of data were present in the deposits, including the potential for examination of social group activities by inhabitants of the fort. Since 1994, four episodes of high water on the Laramie River spring run-off has resulted in loss of up to 30 meters of cultural deposits in some areas of the dump, with most of this loss in 2010. A geophysical survey in 2011 revealed, even with this 30 meter loss, extensive cultural deposits are still preserved. Recommendations for future investigations are being prepared. Biography: Affiliation Wyoming State Archaeologist’s Office; Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources Educational Background Dr. Walker is a native of Kansas, graduating from Fort Hays State College in 1970, with a degree in geology. While there, he worked as a museum assistant at the Sternberg Memorial Museum. He moved to Wyoming in 1970, working as the museum curator at the University of Wyoming Geology Museum. In 1973, he began a graduate degree program in Anthropology, graduating with a Master's of Arts in 1975. He also worked as an archaeological crew foreman for the Wyoming State Archaeologist's Office while working on that degree. In 1975, he was promoted to Assistant State Archaeologist, a position he still holds today. In 1986, a doctorate in Zoology and Physiology was awarded to him by the University of Wyoming. He continues his education with short courses on archaeological and anthropological topics. Publications His primary research interests and work is in the archaeology of the Northwestern High Plains, primarily dealing with the bird and mammal remains from the archaeological sites, examining the Pleistocene and Holocene distributions of Wyoming animals, and developing data on the Late Pleistocene/Holocene paleoenvironments of North America. In recent years, his work has centered on the early Historic archaeology of Wyoming, from South Pass City State Historic Site to Fort Laramie National Historic Site. His research record can be documented by the three edited books, 59 referred publications; 29 non-referred publications; 11 book reviews; 100 oral papers presented at professional society meetings; 7 poster papers presented at professional society meetings; 56 archaeological faunal reports from research or cultural resource management projects; and 120 unpublished cultural resource management reports he has prepared, both as senior author or junior author. Professional Affiliations/Scholarly Activities Dr. Walker is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and a member of several professional organizations, including the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Society for American Archaeology, the Plains Anthropological Conference, the Kansas Anthropological Association, the American Society of Mammalogists, the Wyoming Archeological Society, the Montana Archaeological Society the Wyoming Historical Society, Wyoming Public Employees Association, the American Quaternary Association and the Wyoming Association of Professional Archeologists. He has also served as President of the Wyoming Public Employees Association, the Fort Laramie Historical Association and Plains Anthropological Society. He was recently elected to the position as Registrar for the Register of Professional Archaeologists.
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Hello everyone, Our next meeting will be Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 7 pm in the Anthropology building. As per usual we will be having dinner at Altitude at 5:30 - come one come all.
This month our guest
speaker is Mr. Dan Bach, RPA from Cheyenne. The title of his
talk was “Year 2010 Excavations at the Raven’s Nest Site (48SU3871) located
near Pinedale, Wyoming.” Dan presented some preliminary
analysis that suggests a seasonally occupied site that was used for several
hundred years and was occupied by both Shoshone and Ute Native Americans. A
PowerPoint presentation was showed where artifacts recovered included dozens of
projectile points, scrapers, drills, both Shoshone and Uncompaghre pottery
along with buffalo and rabbit sized burned bones.
Hello everyone, Our next meeting will be Tuesday November 8, 2011 at 7 pm in the Anthropology building. As per usual we will be having dinner at Altitude at 5:30 - come one come all. Speaker: Colleen Reese Title: A Little Bit About the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks Abstract: The presentation will introduce some of the methods used to discover and excavate two 16th-century Spanish shipwrecks from the same colonial fleet that wrecked in the same hurricane in Pensacola Bay, Florida. The focus will be on the materials recovered, particularly on plant remains. Bio: Colleen Reese Lawrence received her M.A. in anthropology in 2009 from the University of West Florida, where she focused on underwater archaeology and paleoethnobotany.
Carmen Clayton
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Hello everyone,The next WAS meeting will be Tuesday October 11, 2011 at 7 pm in the Anthropology building. Dinner will be at Altitude at 5:30. Our speaker this month will be Dr. Dudley Gardner. His talk is entitled Mongolia Archeological Survey along the Russian Border. This presentation will focus on the archaeological inventory of 21 square kilometers in north central Mongolia. He will present some of the inventory results and then provide a brief comparison of settlement patterns and land use in Wyoming and Montana. He will also look at Mongolian foodways and how they relate to current and past use of the natural environment.
Biography: Dr. A. Dudley Gardner has been a Professor of History and Political Science since 1981, and has served as Social Science/Fine Arts Division Chair since 1994, all at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs, Wyoming. His focus is the intermountain west and has expanded to do comparative studies in Asia. Dr. Gardner is also involved in ongoing archeology projects in Mongolia and Polynesia. He has presented scores of professional papers, including most recently 2011; “Microfloral Remains and its Implications for the Chinese Diaspora in the South Pacific, 1860-1930,” 43rd Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Amelia Island, Jacksonville Florida (Gardner, Hutchinson, Pasacreta, and Gardner). In addition, he has also contributed many articles and chapters in books.
Carmen
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Hello everyone, I hope you all had a fabulous summer. Our first meeting of the school year will be Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 7 pm in the Anthropology building. We will be doing dinner at Altitude at 5:30. Please join the crowd.
Our speaker this month will be Elizabeth M. Lynch. Her talk is entitled Grinding Landscapes of the Southern Plains: Placemaking and the Preservation of Social Space. Prehistoric peoples created food grinding or milling surfaces on exposed bedrock outcrops in the canyon landscape of southeastern Colorado between 2500 and 600 years ago. These "constructed" spaces offer an opportunity to understand the prehistoric landscape and the social construction of space. Specifically, how people organize space as an expression of cultural values and norms. She uses close range photogrammetry (CRP) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to record bedrock grinding areas, also interchangeably termed bedrock metates, mortars and slicks. She combines CRP and GIS analysis with regional ethnohistorical accounts of grinding to describe the shape variation and site distribution of these features and to better explain how and why these bedrock grinding stations were created and inhabited by prehistoric peoples. Elizabeth Lynch is currently working on her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. She has an MA in Biological Anthropology from New Mexico State University, an MBA in International Marketing, and a BA in French.
Carmen Clayton
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Local Contact Information:
Joe Wheeler, President
902 E. Kearney St. Laramie, WY 82070 703-489-3686 E-mail Joseph.Wheeler.III [at]gmail.com
Richard Adams, Vice President Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist Department 3431 1000 East University Avenue307-721-0882 Laramie, Wyoming 82071 E-mail radams[at]state.wy.us
Carmen Clayton, Secretary
855 N. Pine
Laramie, Wyoming 82075
307-742-7669
E-mail cclayt[at]state.wy.us
Dale Wedel, Treasurer
267775 Monroe St.
Laramie, Wyoming 82070E-mail dwedel[at]state.wy.us
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