MUSEUM of NATURAL and CULTURAL HISTORY Engaging Communities 2012–13 REPORT Directors Jon Erlandson Executive Director Thomas Connolly Director of Archaeological Research Pamela Endzweig Director of Anthropological Collections Patricia Krier Director of Development and Public Programs William Orr Codirector of the Condon Collection Greg Retallack Codirector of the Condon Collection Museum Advisory Committee Jay Bowerman Beth Campbell Dwight Collins Alec Dakers Sylvia Giustina Verda Giustina Shane Gutierrez Bill Hall Rosaria Haugland Marilyn Livingston Ned Livingston Donovan Mack Donna McGuinness Andy McWilliams Lee Michels Nancy Slight-Gibney Betty Soreng Ann Thompson Ty Zeller 2012–13 Report Jon Erlandson Editor Kristin Strommer Managing Editor Patricia Krier Contributing Editor Lori Howard Designer Scott Skelton Copy Editor On the cover: Museum of Natural and Cultural History field project at Paisley Caves, 2011. Photograph by Paul Baumman and Alton Strupp, used with permission. Table of Contents 2 Mission 3 Letter from the Director 4 2012–13 Staff Publications 10 Enhancing Knowledge 13 Archaeological Research 15 Anthropological Collections 17 Paleontological Collections 19 Public Programs 28 Development and Community Partnerships 30 Honor Roll 36 Staff and Volunteers 38 Museum Administration Mission The University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History protects significant collections, enhances knowledge, and encourages stewardship of human and natural history through research, preservation, and education. 2 MUSEUM OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY 2012–13 REPORT Letter from the Director ENGAGING COMMUNITIES am pleased to share this report transfer the Jensen’s large Arctic of the Museum of Natural and collection to the MNCH. We are I Cultural History’s work during honored to become the stewards 2012–13. The report’s theme, of the Jensen Collection; it Engaging Communities, reflects represents an important record the museum’s longstanding of rapidly changing Arctic commitment to serving multiple cultures and climates, and a communities through research, tremendous addition to the preservation, and education. It Alaskan collections already also highlights the growth in housed at the MNCH. our capacity to serve our diverse Recognizing the museum’s communities—from the students, role in preserving such faculty, staff, and alumni of the collections, the 2013 Oregon University of Oregon to local legislature approved $990,000 families and K–12 students; from in Article XI-Q bonds for Archaeologists. We’ve also Oregon’s Native American tribes upgrades to our storage and initiated some changes in our to a variety of public agencies; exhibition facilities. Secured annual report cycle, transitioning from visitors to Lane County to with the energetic assistance from a calendar year to a fiscal researchers around the globe; of State Representative Nancy year reporting period. Because and many more. Nathanson, these needed it aligns with the UO fiscal Our growth is evident across dollars combine with generous year, the new format will save the museum’s divisions. During support from the University of significant effort in summarizing 2012–13, public interest in Oregon and from the museum’s the museum’s financial affairs museum programs expanded members and donors, funding and academic year to unprecedented levels. Our key upgrades that bolster our activities. This During 2012–13, collections flourished, and current bid to gain accreditation report—which public interest ongoing digitization efforts by the prestigious American covers the eighteen- in museum increased access to our Alliance of Museums (AAM). month period from collections by researchers and Fewer than 10 percent of January 1, 2012, programs the general public. The work natural history museums hold to June 30, 2013— expanded to of our researchers contributed this distinction, which involves represents the unprecedented significantly to the University of a lengthy review process, bridge to the new levels. Oregon’s academic mission and detailed self-study, and external report cycle. to its reputation as the state’s evaluation. The museum began As we prepare for the flagship university. And our the review process in 2012–13 opening of our new Explore endowments more than tripled with the able assistance of AAM Oregon! exhibit hall, weave our in size, furthering our capacity to evaluator Peter Tirrell, associate way through the accreditation serve the museum’s mission well director of the Sam Noble process, and look toward into the future. Oklahoma Museum of Natural the museum’s bright future, Our role as the official History. Engaging Communities repository for state-owned This report describes a celebrates our past successes. anthropological and historical number of other exciting It also celebrates supporters collections came into play during developments that unfolded like you who help to make these 2012–13, as the Jensen Arctic during 2012–13, such as a new successes possible. I invite you Museum at Western Oregon classroom outreach program to join in the celebration, and I University closed its doors to that served thousands of K–12 thank you for being a part of the the public. In response, with the students, and the certification MNCH community! support of UO President Michael of the museum’s field school ~Jon Erlandson Gottfredson, we agreed to by the Register of Professional MUSEUM OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY 2012–13 REPORT 3 Staff Publications The MNCH continues its long tradition of excellence in research and publication, contributing seventy-four scholarly publications and more than seventy technical reports during 2012–13. These include the sixth edition of Elizabeth and William Orr’s Oregon Geology, several book chapters, and scientific papers published in international, peer-reviewed journals such as Science, American Antiquity, and the Proceedings of the *2012 “Exploring Human Subsistence National Academy of Sciences. These publications help further the at CA-SMI-575NE: An 8,400-Year-Old Shell Midden on San Miguel Island, University of Oregon’s reputation as a Tier One research university, California.” In Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Perspectives from as well as the museum’s mission of enhancing knowledge through California Archaeology, edited by M. A. research and public outreach. The museum’s technical reports reflect Glassow and T. Joslin, pp. 124–34. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, its work with federal, state, and local agencies to document and UCLA. protect cultural resources throughout the state. The reports contribute Moss, Madonna L. *2012 “Rifts in the Theoretical valuable data to the record of Oregon’s heritage and facilitate the Landscape of Archaeology in the United States: A Comment on Hegmon and public stewardship of culturally significant sites. Watkins.” American Antiquity 70(3): pp. 581–87. Reprinted in Readings The names of museum staff members are in bold; peer-reviewed in American Antiquity Archaeological contributions are indicated by an asterisk. Theory Selections from American Antiquity, 1962–2011, edited by C. S. Van Pool and T. L. Van Pool, pp. 247–53. Washington, D.C.: Society for American Orr, Elizabeth L. and William N. Orr Archaeology Press. 2012 Oregon Geology. Sixth edition. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State *2013 “Fishing Traps and Weirs on the University Press. Northwest Coast of North America: New Approaches and New Insights.” In Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology, Book Chapters edited by F. Menotti and A. O’Sullivan, pp. Braje, T. J., T. C. Rick, and Jon M. 323–37. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Erlandson *2012 “Rockfish in the Longview: Rick, Torben C. and Jon M. Erlandson Applied Zooarchaeology and *2012 “Kelp Forests, Coastal Conservation of Pacific Red Snapper Migrations, and the Younger Dryas: (Genus Sebastes) in Southern Late Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene California.” In Conservation Biology and Human Settlement, Subsistence, and Applied Zooarchaeology, edited by S. Ecology on California’s Channel Islands.” Wolverton and R. L. Lyman, pp. 157–78. In The Archaeology of the Younger Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Dryas: Case Studies from Around the World, edited by E. Meten, pp. 79–110. Erlandson, Jon M. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast 2012 “California Archaeology: An Press. Ocean View.” In Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, edited by T. L. *2012 “Faunal Remains from Late Jones and J. Perry, pp. 21–36. Walnut Holocene Sites in Tecolote Canyon, Creek, California: Left Coast Press. California: Reconciling Site Disturbances and Human Subsistence on the Santa Books Erlandson, Jon M. and T. J. Braje Barbara Coast.” In Exploring Methods Bland, Richard L. (Editor) *2012 “Foundations for the Far West: of Faunal Analysis: Perspectives from 2013 The Zhokhov Island Site and Paleoindian Cultures on the Western California Archaeology, edited by M. A. Ancient Habitation in the Arctic by Fringe of North America.” In The Oxford Glassow and T. Joslin, pp. 109–23. Los Vladimir V. Pitul’ko. Burnaby, British Handbook of North American Archaeology, Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Columbia: Simon Fraser University edited by T. Pauketat, pp. 149–59. New UCLA. Archaeology Press. York: Oxford University Press. 4 MUSEUM OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY 2012–13 REPORT Walker, P. L., J. Byock, J. T. Eng, Jon M. Erlandson, P. Holck, H. Schwarcz, and D. Zori *2012 “The Axed Man of Mosfell: Skeletal Evidence of a Viking Age Homicide, the Icelandic Sagas, and Feud.” In The