2022 Exhibits
The Archaeology of Water

Humans have a long and fundamental relationship to water. Our very existence depends on it – and all the plants and animals we rely on for sustenance require water too. We have built our communities next to oceans, rivers and springs. We’ve piped it, dammed it, dug canals to direct water to our crops. We’ve built canoes and ships to travel in it; and bridges to cross over it. Our essential connection to water makes it an ideal theme to explore through archaeology, traditional knowledge, and history.

Welcome to the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow, which provides just a sample of ways that water intersects the human story.

GeoVisions and the relationship with sacred Chúush as a Tribally Centered Cultural Resource Management Firm

Video and blog by GeoVisions

Net Weight Manufacture and Use in the Pacific Northwest

Blog and Videos by Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc.

Adam Hudson inside an excavation unit on the shoreline of Lake Chewaucan

There’s something fishy in the Great Basin: a 15,000-year-long environmental record of endemic tui chub from the Paisley Caves, Oregon

Adam Hudson, U.S. Geological Survey, Presentation recording from the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow

a collage of images - a group stands outside a can holding a banner that reads 'Northern Great Basin Archaeological Field School'. A black and white image of a large group around a campfire at night. A woman collects data from a rock outcropping.

Archaeology on Tap

Archaeology on Tap, Presentation recording from the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow

Intertidal clam garden from coastal British Columbia

The Clam Garden Network: Exploring the social and ecological contexts of clam management in the past, present, and future

Dana Lepofsky, Simon Fraser University, Presentation recording from the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow

Lost Ships, Lost Sailors: Mystery Wrecks of the Pacific Northwest

Scott Williams, Washington State Department of Transportation, Presentation recording from the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow

Oregon’s Water: What Coyote Can Teach Us

Video recorded live December 8, 2021 as part of the Champinefu Webinar Series

Tribal Canoe Lifeways

A PANEL PRESENTATION by SAM ROBINSON (Chinook Indian Nation), RENEA PERRY (Tlingit, Inupiat, Norwegian), and JORDAN MERCIER (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde). , Presentation recording from the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow