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Combining Tsimshian oral history with
archaeologists’ field methods (Now they take
their collections back to lab to analyse for dates etc On left Dr
Martindale’s Presentation—about
50 people were present for review Then PhD
student Duncan McLaren Then Dr Andrew
Martinadale (Here is good students description of
2005 season on Dundas) |
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Been here 7T and probably 10T years |
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Image
left is ‘map’ of over 120 sites found so far on Dundas group --- dating from
10T(?) to 200BP
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Duncan
McLaren presentation |
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Sleuthing
out previous sea levels: he jokingly chided ‘some’ archaeologists who were
content to zoom around in inflatable boat looking at present day beaches for
likely housing sites |
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Plan
of action |
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search out paleo-shorelines; map them; ground truth –plus look for
settlements Coring
lake sediments etc gave raw data (different diatoms etc live in fresh water
and saltwater—thus coring sediments is a ‘history’ of past sea levels --- as
on left found relative sea level 13 meters higher at 12T BP – and has been
about present level for past 5T years ---- Archaeological sites from interim
(8T to 5T) have been found --- feel confident will find sites dating back to
10T |
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Dr Archer on TV
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Unfortunately
for me – all my images from the David Archer presentation ‘disappeared’ and
thus for the summary you will have to watch him on TV Previous
articles on this site PR archaeology sites And a much
earlier article on PR quaternary
geology |
Created by LG on
JULY 16, 2006
Last updated on Monday, July 17, 2006