Miranda Harding
Miranda Harding, MS
PhD Program
Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
Miranda Harding is the recipient of the 2023 ASCO Research Grant
Learn all about the Ice Age through archaeology!
This program is recommended for children grades 2-6, and children under 10 must be accompanied by a caregiver.
The Archaeological Society of Central Oregon invites you to learn about an amazing archaeological site that has thousands of fossilized footprints of Ice Age animals and humans. From the trackway evidence, archaeologists can "see" stories of hunters stalking a giant sloth, mammoths crossing the path of a woman and a child, and teenagers slipping and sliding in the mud along the ancient lake. You can even count how many of your steps are equal to the step of a mammoth!
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North America’s arid west is home to one of the world’s most ancient and diverse records offiber artifacts. Native peoples of this region used fibers to make baskets, footwear, leggings, skirts, shawls, hats, nets, sleeping mats, lodge covers, watercraft, armor, fishing weirs, and many other items essential to daily life. Although many such items housed in museums today have come from uncertain contexts, organic artifacts have the advantage of being directly radiocarbon dated. Systematic dating of fiber artifacts has confirmed this region’s 14,000-plusyear history of fiber arts and allows us to determine the age of specific forms or structural types. This effort demonstrates the exceptional persistence of some basketry traditions, and important geographic variation in others.
Mailing address: PO Box 8146, Bend, Oregon 97708-8146
Email: ascoinfomail@gmail.com
"Archaeological Society of Central Oregon" is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
