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Siwash Bridge Publication of the Archaeological Society of British Columbia ISSN 004 7-7222 Vol. 35, No. 2- 2003 SIWASH BRIDGE - FaRv 3 PERMITS 2003 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MMIDDEN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published four times a year by the Dedicated to the protection of archaeological resources Archaeological Society of British Columbia and the spread of archaeological knowledge. Editorial Committee President Editor: Jack Aetcher(604.57 4-1392) Patricia Ormerod (604.733.0571) [email protected] [email protected] Permit Lists: Richard Brolly (604.689.1678) Membership [email protected] SarahLadd (604)737-7935 News Editor: Sandy Alexander [email protected] [email protected] Field Editor: Rudy Reimer (604) 254-2660 [email protected] Annual membership includes a year's subscription to Publications Editor: Bill Angelbeck (604.875.9094) The Midden and the ASBC newsletter SocNotes . 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Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Tough ........................... 10 Recent Publications ...................................................................... 12 57th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference Call for Papers .............................................................................. 13 Permits issued by the Archaeology & Registry Branch, April - July 2003 ........................................................ ... .... 14 Cover A view of site FaRv 3, Siwash Bridge, Chilcotin Plateau The Midden 3512 1 Ancient History and The Archaeology and Registry Fraser University with provincial, Environments of Northeastern Services Branch has moved. national and international application. BC Being Examined It is now located on the 3rd Floor, For details and requirements visit: http:/ Fort St. John, BC -The first major 3400Davidson Street, Victoria, B.C. /www.sfu.ca/archaeology/dept/jobs/ archaeological excavation in New fax number, mailing address, and crcfs.htm. Northeastern BC, in over a decade, bas phone numbers are as follows: just begun. Local archaeologist, Keary Fax Number: (250) 952-4188 West Moberly Heritage Trails Walde, is carrying out this research at a Reception Number: (250) 952-4300 Rediscovered site in the Gutab gas field, 176 Km north Mailing Address: PO Box 9375, Stn Moberly Lake, B.C. of Fort St. John. "The archaeological Prov Govt, Victoria BC, V8W 9M5 The West Moberly First Nation will be study is being complemented by an Branch Email: [email protected] mapping the locations of three heritage equally significant examination of trails and through oral history, environmental changes over the past Remote Access to documenting their traditional use and 10,000 - 12,000 years," said Mr. Walde. Archaeological Data heritage significance to the community. "Analysis of nearby lake bottom RAAD is a web based application that Moberly Lake Heritage Trails Research deposits, overseen by Royal BC Museum enables authorized users to view, select, is a project being supported by the Royal palaeobotonist, Dr. Richard Hebda, will and download information about BC Museum s Living Landscapes: Peace provide pollen evidence of vegetation archaeological sites in British Columbia. River-Northern Rockies initiative. The changes people learned to live with over Users can browse the data for specific long-term goal of the West Moberly First that time." A report on this project will site information using the online mapping Nation is to repair the trails and create form a component of the Museum's and query utilities and download the interpretive signage that would inform Living Landscapes: Peace River Northern information they want in a variety of data visitors about the history and heritage Rockies initiative. formats. The primary purpose of RAAD of their people. The West Moberly is to serve clients who require believe that this project will begin to help Jamestown Fort archaeological information on a frequent bridge the gap between youth and elders, Jamestown, Va. - Seven years after basis for land use planning or impact as well as surrounding communities, by archaeologists discovered evidence of assessment projects. Examples of such encouraging Elders to share their stories the fort built when Jamestown was clients include: archaeological and about the trails and what they meant to founded in 1607, they finally know how environmental consultants, federal and the survival of the First Nations People big the triangle-shaped log enclosure provincial land use planning agencies, and non-native pioneers of the north. was. Based on the finding in 1996 of the regional districts, municipalities and first Research and educational material fort's east corner and on historical nations. For more information visit: obtained through this project will also documents, archaeologists had been http:/ /srm www. gov. be. ca/arch/ become available on the Living searching for the outlines of a fort that RAADintro.html. Landscapes website as well as the West covered 1.75 acres, said William Kelso, Moberly website. The RBCM's Living director of archaeology for the Job opportunity at SFU Landscapes program is entering its ninth Association for the Preservation of The Department of Archaeology at year, with earlier work having occurred VrrginiaAntiquities. Digging this summer Simon Fraser University is seeking in the Thompson Okanagan, Columbia unearthed evidence of the fort's western applications for a Tier 1 Canada Research River Basin, and Upper Fraser Basin wall and north corner, defining the fort's Chair in the field of Forensic Science. With regions. shape for the first time and indicating the its primary focus on research, this Living Landscapes is a research and fort actually enclosed 1.1 acres, Kelso position will serve as the catalyst for public education project focusing on said. creation of a cross disciplinary forensic encouraging the exploration and research and training centre at Simon appreciation of the diverse human and 2 The Midden 35/2 natural history of British Columbia on a Deep-water shipwreck explorers have 10 em tall and wide and has a bone regional basis. For more information on raised Reconstruction-era gold and silver splinter rammed through a bole, making the Royal BC Museum' s Living coins and other precious artifacts from the rock look as if it has eyes. Landscapes initiative please visit http:// what could be one of the richest shipwreck Commentators say the object shows the livinglandscapes.bc.ca treasures ever found. The treasure was Neanderthals were more sophisticated found in the wreck of the S.S. Republic, than their caveman image suggests. Lost sacred language of the which sank during a hurricane off the Maya is rediscovered coast of Georgia in 1865. Records indicate Firefighters unearth ancient Linguists have discovered a still­ that the ship was carrying coins worth Indian camp surviving version of the sacred religious U.S. $400,000-afortune at today's values. Firefighters who dug trenches in the language of the ancient Maya- the great Many of the coins observed on the S.S. San Bernardino Mountains during the pyramid-building civilisation
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