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Media Release: Archaeological Field School at Vancouver National
Historic
Reserve (also attached as a Word doc below)


Lecture Series: Exploring Diversity, Conflict, and Science in
Archaeology:
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site News Release (also attached as a
Word
doc below


Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

MEDIA RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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June 8, 2010
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Media Contact:


Douglas C. Wilson (360) 921-5241 or doug_wilson at nps.gov 


Elaine Dorset (503) 753-8429 or elaine_dorset at nps.gov 




Public Archaeological Field School at Fort Vancouver National Historic
Site


VANCOUVER, WA - Superintendent Tracy Fortmann has announced the 2010
Public
Archaeology Field School at Fort Vancouver

Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, the
National Park Service, Northwest Cultural Resources Institute, and the
Fort
Vancouver National Trust are pleased to announce a field school in
historical archaeology at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and
Lava
Beds National Monument.

The program will introduce the methods and theories of fieldwork in
historical archaeology. Students will participate in all aspects of
field
and laboratory work: laying out units, excavation by shovel and
trowel,
mapping, drawing, photography, and cleaning, identifying, and
analyzing
artifacts. The season will include a speakers series entitled,
Exploring
Diversity, Conflict, and Science in Archaeology


A new program will also bring urban youth and families to the fort,
providing opportunities to experience life in the 19th century, learn
about
the science of archaeology and reconnect to the diverse histories of
the
Pacific Northwest through a series of day and overnight camps.





The National Park Service and its partners are committed to sharing
cultural resources and preservation values with the public. On a
rotating
basis, students will discuss the field school activities with
visitors,
interpreting the significance of the site and the educational purposes
of
the project.





Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is an unparalleled
archaeological
laboratory, comprising the remains of Fort Vancouver, the ca.
1825-1860
regional headquarters and supply depot for the Hudson’s Bay Company,
and
Vancouver Barracks, the first (ca. 1849-2010) permanent U.S. Army post
and
command center in the Pacific Northwest.

The field school will run from June 15 through July 24, 2010 at Fort
Vancouver National Historic Site. Starting June 22, the public is
welcome
to visit Tuesday through Saturday, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.



This year’s field school will explore Fort Vancouver’s
multicultural
Village (also known as “Kanaka Village”). This colonial village was
the
largest settlement in the Pacific Northwest in the 1830s and 1840s. It
contained people from all over the world and the Pacific Northwest,
including Native Hawaiians, the Métis, and people of many different
American Indian tribes. The field school will provide a means to
recapture
the history of this multicultural worker’s village and to engage the
modern
Portland/Vancouver area in the unique history of their closest
National
Park site.

In the latter portion of the course, the school will move to Lava Beds
National Monument to assist in the National Park Service Purvey of
Modoc
Indian War fortifications at Captain Jack’s Stronghold in northern
California.

This 1872-1873 war was the longest and most expensive nineteenth
century
military conflict in California. Field trips may be taken to other
sites in
Oregon or Washington.

More information about the history of the Village is available on the
park’s website at: www.nps.gov/fova/historyculture/the-village.htm 



BACKGROUND: The Vancouver National Historic Reserve brings together a
national park, a premier archaeological site, the region's first
military
post, an international fur trade emporium, one of the oldest operating
airfields, the first national historic site west of the Mississippi
River,
and a waterfront trail and environmental center on the banks of the
Columbia River. The partners of the Reserve teach visitors about the
fur
trade, early military life, natural history, and pioneers in aviation,
all
within the context of Vancouver’s role in regional and national
development. The Reserve's vast array of public programs -- including
living history events, festivals, cultural demonstrations, exhibits,
active
archaeology, and other special activities -- create a dynamic, fun,
andunique tourist destination for people of all ages.

EXPERIENCE YOUR AMERICA:  The National Park Service cares for special
places saved by the American people so that all may experience our
heritage.





LECTURE SERIES INFORMATION



Subject: Exploring Diversity, Conflict, and Science in Archaeology:
Fort
Vancouver National Historic Site News Release
To:


Fort Vancouver National Historic Site News Release

June 8, 2010
For Immediate Release
Doug Wilson 360 921-5241 or Doug_Wilson at nps.gov 
Elaine Dorset (503) 753-8429 or Elaine_Dorset at nps.gov 



Exploring Diversity, Conflict, and Science in Archaeology

2010 SPEAKER SERIES

PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL
AT FORT VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE


Experts in the field of archaeology will speak during the annual
archaeology field school at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, a
program of the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute.  The lectures
are open to the public and will address topics including Chinese
Sojourners, Hawaiian miners, Chinook Fishers, Hunters and Gatherers,
and the role of science in revealing past peoples and their history.
Seating for these lectures is limited, and is offered on a first-come,
first-served basis. The field school is a joint undertaking of the
Northwest Cultural Resources Institute at Fort Vancouver National
Historic Site (National Park Service), Portland State University,
Washington State University Vancouver, and the Fort Vancouver National
Trust.

Directions:

All of the talks will be held at the Auditorium of Pearson Air Museum,
located at 1115 E 5th Street, Vancouver, WA 98661.  Directions: From
I-5 take the Mill Plain Blvd. exit going east.  Turn right onto Fort
Vancouver Way, then left onto East 5th Street.

The Northwest Cultural Resources Institute is dedicated to
facilitating cultural resource education and research activities in
the region, through cooperative partnerships at Fort Vancouver
National Historic Site and at other Northwest National Parks.  Fort
Vancouver, the premier historical archaeological site in the Pacific
Northwest, provides a dynamic place-based learning environment for
public and academic programs.





 Thursday, June 24, 2010, 7:00 pm – Kenneth M. Ames, Ph.D.,
Portland
State University:  Exploring the People of the Lower Columbia River:
New Perspectives on the Cathlapotle and Meier Archaeological Sites

Kenneth M. Ames, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology
at Portland State University, is a specialist on the archaeology and
prehistory of the peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.  He is
co-author, with Herbert D.G. Maschner, of Peoples of the Northwest
Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory (1999).  Much of his 35-year
career in archaeology has focused on social complexity among complex
hunter-gatherers, including the development of permanent social
inequality and sedentism and the role of economic intensification in
hunter-gatherer social change. Since 1984, he has concentrated his
work on large Chinook plankhouse sites in the “Wapato Valley”
(Portland/Vancouver Basin). The Meier site contains remains of a very
large, single plankhouse dating between AD 1450 and 1820. It was not
observed by Euroamericans. The Cathlapotle site was visited and
described by Lewis and Clark and played an important role in the fur
trade on the Lower Columbia River. This lecture will explore the
newest findings from these significant sites made possible through a
recent National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

 Thursday, July 1, 2010, 7:00 pm – Chelsea E. Rose, M.A., Southern
Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology:  The "Copper Colored
Argonauts:" Minorities in the Southern Oregon Gold Rush

Chelsea E. Rose, M.A., is Staff Archaeologist at the Southern Oregon
University Laboratory of Anthropology.  Chelsea’s research focuses
on
frontier gold rushes of the 19th century, including Chinatowns and
multi-ethnic mining camps in California and Oregon. She has gained
some fame as a member of Public Broadcasting’s “Time Team
America.”
Her talk will explore a mid-19th century mining camp in southern
Oregon -- “Kanaka Flat” -- named for Hawaiians who founded the
site
along with American Indians and Portuguese. She will also talk about
the ethnic Chinese of Jacksonville.  Rose’s talk will dispel the
myths
of the multi-ethnic mining towns.


 Thursday, July 8, 2010, 7:00 pm – Mark Warner, Ph.D., Idaho State
University: Life on the Fringe: Food and Identity among the Chinese of
Sandpoint, Idaho

Dr. Mark Warner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Idaho State
University.  His more than twenty years of experience in archaeology
includes projects in Maryland, Oklahoma and the inland Northwest.  He
is currently working on the Sandpoint Archaeology Project, an
extensive archaeological and historical study of the early settlement
of Sandpoint, Idaho.  Recent excavations in that community resulted in
the recovery of an assemblage of approximately 11,000 faunal remains
associated with the Overseas Chinese community of Sandpoint -- perhaps
the largest assemblage of bones associated with a Chinese-occupied
site.  Particularly telling is the fact that the remains show a trend
in meat consumption that is quite different from what has been
regularly identified in other Chinese-occupied sites in the west.
This contrast, however, is likely not a result of Chinese assimilation
but rather suggests a distinct set of circumstances and relationships
between the Euroamerican and Chinese residents of this frontier
western town.

 Wednesday, July 22, 2010, 7:00 pm – Irwin Rovner, Ph.D., Binary
Analytical Consultants: The Measure of History: or, How to Become an
Instant Expert in Archaeological Science in Only Two Easy Lessons

Dr. Irwin Rovner is CEO of Binary Analytical Consultants.  A
conventionally trained Anthropologist, Dr. Rovner devoted his career
to pioneering applications of multidisciplinary methodologies and
technologies in archaeology.   He initiated the modern era of
applications of plant opal phytolith analysis conducting studies in
archaeological sites on every inhabited continent around the world
extending from the Paleolithic to 20th century historic sites and most
every era in between.  As adjunct faculty in Materials Science and
Engineering of North Carolina State University, he has explored
Morphometry – the Science of Morphological Measurement – through
Computer-Assisted Image analysis in the full range of archaeological
materials, microscopic, macroscopic and megascopic.  As founder and
CEO of Binary Analytical, his most recent work in the morphometry of
modern and archaeological seeds has identified fundamental flaws in
morphological and taxonomic systematics in Biology and Archaeobotany.
A substantial body of conventional archaeobotanical analysis is now
suspect while new and more powerful analytical procedures are being
developed.  These promise to revolutionize our understanding of broad
areas of archaeobotany, paleoethnobotany as well as sustainable
agriculture in the modern world.  Dr. Rovner’s lecture will explore
the science of archaeology as it is applied to these fields.

Background:  The Fort Vancouver National Site brings together a
national park, a premier archaeological site, the region's first
military post, an international fur trade emporium, one of the oldest
operating airfields, the first national historic site west of the
Mississippi River, and a waterfront trail and environmental center on
the banks of the Columbia River. The partners of the Fort Vancouver
National Site teach visitors about the fur trade, early military life,
natural history, and pioneers in aviation, all within the context of
Vancouver’s role in regional and national development. The park’s
vast
array of public programs -- including living history events,
festivals, cultural demonstrations, exhibits, active archaeology, and
other special activities -- create a dynamic, fun, and unique tourist
destination for people of all ages.


(See attached file: FOVA_2010_lecture_series.doc)(See attached file:
FOVA_2010_Field_School_Media_Release.doc)

Elaine Dorset
Archaeologist
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
360-816-6254
Elaine_Dorset at nps.gov 

Heidi Pierson
Museum Technician
National Park Service
Fort Vancouver NHS
612 E. Reserve St.
Vancouver, WA 98661
Phone: (360) 816-6255
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