All Exhibits

Welcome to the Archaeology Roadshow virtual exhibits, created by our community partners — including tribes, federal and state agencies, private companies, avocational organizations, museums, and Portland State University students.

Indigenous People leading the Williamson-Abbot Expedition to a bountiful Camp in the Cascade Mountains. Original sketch by John Young, U.S. Pacific Railroad Survey, 1857. Reproduction provided by Smithsonian Institution.

The Scars of History: Mapping Oregon’s Cascade Mountains

Video by the Oregon Heritage Tree Program

Oregon’s Water: What Coyote Can Teach Us

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

Conversations About Culture: Ancient Pottery

Video by Laurel Diciuccio (PSU student)

Wapato Zine

Blog by Chloe Clark (PSU student)

A man carries a little boy through waste deep flood waters. The little boy looks into the camera with his arms around the man's nek. Image courtesy The Columbian.

The Legacy of the Vanport Flood Told Through Music

Video and blog by Jarod Pereda (PSU student)

Loteria Card images created by Melody Midkiff and Drew Haven. Wapato and Beaver drawing created by Chloe Clark

An Introduction to the Willamette Valley Historical Ecology Project

Blog by Shelby Larson (PSU student)

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

Emily Van Alst, Indiana University, Presentation recording from the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow

How Well Do You Know Your Dam Columbia River History?

video and quiz by FCRPS Cultural Resource Program

Soundscape of the Columbia River

Sound recordings by John Patterson (PSU Student)

Field Museum - 1910 Photo of logs being deposited into the holding pond at the town of Palmer

Waterlogged – Water Use During Historic Logging Activities at Bridal Veil Lumbering Company

Video by the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

cam creek with snow on the ground, no grass visible

Sink or Swim: Aquatic Restoration on the Malheur National Forest

Blog by the Blue Mountain Ranger District, Malheur National Forest

Valle de Willamette Loteria

Activity by Drew Haven, Melody Midkiff, and Daniela Ortiz Mendez (PSU students)

a woman with a long red braid admires a wapato plant

Wapato for the People

Blog by Melissa Darby of Lower Columbia Research & Archaeology LLC

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

Video and blog by GeoVisions

North Wall of the Sodhouse Ranch, Stone Cellar (FWS)

Historic Preservation of the Stone Cellar at Sodhouse Ranch within Malheur NWR

Blog by Karla Mingus, Zone Archaeologist U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Tim Stuart (left), member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, stands at the base of Nuu-k’wii-daa-naa~-ye with his nephew, Nayson Tooya Stuart, and sister, Tiffany Stuart. Photograph courtesy of Outdoor History Consulting.Videos produced by Outdoor History Consulting: David-Paul B. Hedberg, producer and editor, James Krzmarzick Videographer

Nuu-k’wii-daa-naa~-ye ‘Our Ancestor’ in the Forest: How a community named and honored a 400 year old Sitka Spruce

Video by the Oregon Heritage Tree Program

Overlay of Historic BLM Maps over Fern Ridge

Landscapes Through Time: Now and Then

StoryMap by Travis Anglin-Dodd and Nathan Jereb (PSU Students)

Beautiful Landscape of Grand Canyon from Desert View Point with the Colorado River visible during dusk

Archaeological Discovery Through Erosion

Video and blog by Heather Alley (PSU student)

The inside of the Piscina Mirabilis in Miseno, Naples Italy, photo by David Millard

The Piscina Mirabilis: Water for Misenum

Blog by John Allen (University of Sheffield, Material Sciences, retired) and David Millar (University College, Dublin University, Computer Systems Engineering, retired)

Fort Vancouver in 3D: Photogrammetry of Waterfront Artifacts

3D Scans by Devin C. Martin (PSU Student)

painting of a shipwreck and stunning orange sunset; oil painting by Francis Danby c.1850

Ship: Wrecked – A Choose Your Own Adventure Book!

Activity by Ceilidh Wolfe and Madison Hill (PSU Students)

black and white sketch of Grave Creek Bridge, Josephine County (Wolf Creek) licensed by Adobe Stock

A Splash of Illustrations: Celebrating Historic Bridges of Western Oregon

Activity and blog by Rachel Tilbury (PSU Student)

A map created by Gregory Post, Heejun Chang, and David Banis.

The Spatial Relationship Between Disappeared Streams and Residential Development in Portland, Oregon, USA

Blog by Gregory (Grisha) Post, Heejun Chang and David Banis, Portland State University Department of Geography

side view of the Burnside Bridge on a sunny day

Views from Burnside Bridge

video by Architectural Heritage Center

Rainbow at Tualatin River NWR by Carli Hirschman USFWS

A Bird’s Eye View: Waterways and Lifeways on Oregon’s National Wildlife Refuges

StoryMap by Patrick Rennaker and Virginia Parks, Archaeologists, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Grand Ronde Cultural Policy Analyst and tribal member, Greg Archuleta walks into the forest of Marys Peak

Waters of the People: Take a journey through the naming process of creeks on Marys Peak with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

A StoryMap by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde

bull flat viewed through gatehouse window

The Dam Fiasco at Bull Flat: a look back at the 1913-1914 Tumalo Project

Mike Berry, Deschutes County Historical Society, Presentation recording from the 2022 Archaeology Roadshow

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