Evening with East Idaho Archaeologists

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” min_height=”1214px” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Join archaeologists Dr. L. Suzann Henrikson, Museum of Idaho Research Archaeologist, and Dr. Daron Duke, owner of Far Western Anthropological Research Group, in learning about ancient Idaho. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided. Register Topics: Based on recent discoveries, archaeologists are beginning to understand the importance of the Desert West in the Ice Age peopling of the New World. The Snake River Plain and the Great Salt Lake Desert of northern Utah contain connecting archaeological records that are unique to North America. Mammoth, camel, and other now-extinct fauna were plentiful in these regions and may have been hunted by humans using a variety of stone tool technologies. While Owl Cave exhibits the only evidence of humans hunting now-extinct Bison antiquus west of the Rocky Mountains at the close of the Ice Age, new investigations in the Great Salt Lake Desert suggest that humans and mammoths occupied the area contemporaneously in vast wetlands that existed there during at the same time. When combined with an extensive stone tool record—including large spear tips known as Haskett—the possibility of demonstrating a previously unrecognized human-megafauna relationship in the Desert West becomes very real. About Dr. L Suzann Henrikson: Dr. Henrikson was raised in Idaho Falls and first visited Owl Cave (aka the Wasden