Skagit Topic - 10,000 Years of Hiking the North Cascades
Name:
Skagit Topic - 10,000 Years of Hiking the North Cascades
Date:
May 1, 2016
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Event Description:
Featuring Bob Mierendorf...
Bob began directing excavation at Cascade Pass in the North Cascades in 2005. He has made discoveries documenting over 9,000 years of human history at this site, deciphered through the artifacts, features, and geochronology. This is the first documented well-stratified archeological site of its kind in the subalpine environment of the North Cascades. Bob’s work at Cascade Pass is re-defining regional perceptions of human history. When he began his career the general perception among anthropologists and archeologists was that indigenous people did not use the Cascade Mountains in prehistory but focused instead in riverine and coastal environments. Bob has disproved those misperceptions over the past 20 years and his research at Cascade Pass provides the direct evidence to illustrate that people have been specifically drawn to subalpine environments of the North Cascades for at least 8 millennia.
Bob began directing excavation at Cascade Pass in the North Cascades in 2005. He has made discoveries documenting over 9,000 years of human history at this site, deciphered through the artifacts, features, and geochronology. This is the first documented well-stratified archeological site of its kind in the subalpine environment of the North Cascades. Bob’s work at Cascade Pass is re-defining regional perceptions of human history. When he began his career the general perception among anthropologists and archeologists was that indigenous people did not use the Cascade Mountains in prehistory but focused instead in riverine and coastal environments. Bob has disproved those misperceptions over the past 20 years and his research at Cascade Pass provides the direct evidence to illustrate that people have been specifically drawn to subalpine environments of the North Cascades for at least 8 millennia.
