A traveling exhibition highlighting the significance of Oregon archaeology is now on display at the . Each year since 1994, the Oregon Archaeology Celebration (OAC) committee has designed a unique ...

Could Oregon caves hold the secrets to how and when people first arrived in the Americas? More than 70 years ago, University of Oregon archaeologist Dr. Luther Cressman believed that was the case. In ...

SALEM, OREGON—Students from Willamette University and volunteers from the Oregon Archaeological Society assisted City of Salem archaeologist Kimberli Fitzgerald with the search for a parsonage ...

In a new book, University of Oregon archaeology professor Scott Fitzpatrick explains what the early explorers' travels from island to island has in common with exploring space where one might see a ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The State Historic Preservation Office, part of Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, will hold two virtual Rule Advisory Committee meetings Feb. 9 and Feb. 25. The committee ...

In the barren lands of the Eastern Oregon desert, a team of University of Oregon archaeologists, field archaeologists and volunteers sift through dirt, rocks, rain water and 18,000-year-old camel ...

Smith Rock State Park will host the annual Oregon Archaeology Celebration (OAC) lecture series during October. Each Friday 7 – 8:30 p.m. a different speaker will present their lecture at the Smith ...

Between 1965 and 1989, archaeological investigations in connection with the Elk Creek Dam Project, some 60 km. north of the California border in Jackson County, Oregon, documented a record of Native ...

Imagine walking along the sidewalk of Broadway Street NE and seeing an outline of brick marking the location of the Jason Lee House, or maybe an etched glass panel that provides a three-dimensional ...

University of Oregon scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil, a toe bone, thought to be roughly 103 million years old, dating back to the Cretaceous period. It belonged to a creature called an ...

PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Record drought on the U.S. West Coast has exposed the ruins of an Oregon hamlet once submerged under the waters of a man-made reservoir, allowing a rare opportunity for an ...

The sea mammals vanished from Oregon’s coast long ago, but a technique from human archaeology offers a clue to restoring them. By Joshua Sokol From 1969 to 1971, the United States was testing nuclear ...