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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join us for our May First Thursday event - Thursday May 2, 4pm, in Cramer 41.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Molly Casperson (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) will be speaking about her study of past subsistence in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska (see abstract below). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Invite your students and other interested colleagues. Thanks and see you there!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Abstract</i>: The Norton Stage (2500-1000 cal B.P.) of Southwest Alaska is typically characterized as a caribou hunting and fishing culture. To directly document Norton subsistence practices, Casperson analyzed a sizeable faunal assemblage
from Summit Island, a nearshore island of northwest Bristol Bay. Analysis of 9,981 mammal and bird bone specimens documented an intensive marine-focused subsistence economy; over 2,000 years, generations of Norton peoples harvested seals, walruses, murres,
cormorants, and eiders from the Walrus Island chain. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
Shelby Anderson<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Anthropology Department<br>
Portland State University<br>
<a href="mailto:shelby.anderson@pdx.edu" target="_blank">ashelby@pdx.edu</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.shelbylanderson.com" target="_blank">www.shelbylanderson.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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