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Date: | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:17:35 -0800 |
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Friends and colleagues: Working in advance of road-building in Portland,
Oregon, archaeologists recently uncovered traces of a late-prehistoric house
beneath construction rubble. We feature this site and the native people who
lived there in A Journey Through Time: Archaeology at St. Johns, the latest
video offering on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology
Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org).
Two hundred years earlier than the Rivergate Industrial District in
northwest Portland, native Chinookan people of the lower Columbia River
lived in huge plank houses at a settlement we now call the St. Johns Site.
The site and much of the rich wetlands that supplied the people with a
bounteous food supply now are buried beneath thick fill and urban
facilities. This video, the first ALI production, describes this now
vanished lifeway and takes you inside an archaeological excavation that is
shedding new light on the complex society of the first Portlanders.
This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment. We
urge you to support this public service by participating in our Membership
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and Underwriting
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml) programs. Only with your
help can we continue and enhance this nonprofit public-education and
visitor-supported service. We also welcome new content partners as we reach
out to the world community.
Please forward this message to others who may be interested.
Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org
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