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Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society (PNWAS) is a 501c3 charitable organization that promotes pub

Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society is a 501c3 charitable organization that promotes public interest, sponsors research, and awards scholarships for studies in Archaeology.

06/16/2026

Hope all is going well!!!!

I am rushing you this 175th PNWAS NewsBulletin (link here: https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/6/9/23696833/pnwas_news_bulletin_175_compressed_2026-06-08.pdf ) because Dr. Rich Knecht's heroic rescue crew needs our help at this critical point of this CURRENT (right now!) RESCUE efforts recovering 1000s of wood and fiber artifacts in the typhoon damaged frozen site in Western Alaska!!!! Please help them with our GoFundMe here: read at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-rescuing-wood-and-fiber-artifact-in-western-alaska.—ANY AMOUNT PROVIDES THE VITAL MARGIN NEEDED AT THIS CRITICAL (right now!) TIME!!!!

THANK YOU FOR HELPING DR. KNECHT as they conduct their herculian rescue excavations at this very moment!!!!

Best to all, Dale

https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/membership.html

04/12/2026

Join us for our SPRING PNWAS, see PNWAS Newsbulletin #174 here:https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/6/9/23696833/pnwas_news_bulletin_174_compressed_2026-03-20.pdf

And be sure to become a member today to enjoy this and our upcoming PNWAS ZOOM meetings: https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/membership.html

Thursday, April 16th, 2026, 6:30 PM

"Terminal Pleistocene Bison and Sloth from Vancouver Island"
By Morley Eldridge
Millennia Research Limited, B.C.
https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/upcoming-meeting-16-april-2026.html

In line with our theme of the Chehalis River Hypothesis and Squaxin Museum Mammoth exhibit (see in PNWAS Newsbulletin #174), we will have a talk by archaeologist Morley Eldridge, Victoria, B.C. on recent megafauna finds on southern Vancouver Island. They have found Bison antiquus bones with distinct butchering cut marks.
We are finding more evidence of peoples moving down the glaciated coast using the abundant megafauna they encountered. These Victoria, B.C., finds are right across from the Manis Mastodon site in Sequim where they found a bone spear point in a rib (10,800 years old; we are working on getting a loan of this rib and bone point for our Squaxin Museum Mammoth exhibit)!

02/16/2026

Join us for our Late WINTER PNWAS, see PNWAS Newsbulletin #173 here:https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/6/9/23696833/pnwas_news_bulletin_173_2-15-2026_compressed.pdf

And be sure to become a member today to enjoy this and our upcoming PNWAS ZOOM meetings:
https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/membership.html

Thursday, February 19th, 2026, 6:30 PM
"The Undervalued Chiton as a Shellfish Resource on the Northwest Coast of North America"
By Dr. Dale R. Croes, W.S.U./PNWAS
https://pnwas-society.weebly.com/upcoming-meeting-19-feb-2026.html

For the past 10 years I have been studying and publishing on the importance of chitons as a food source and in the oral history of Northwest Coast Peoples. As a food the western world rarely eats, we tend to ignore their considerable importance in the archaeological shell middens from the earliest periods on the entire Pacific NW Coast (see endowed chiton maps of sites of importance to this presentation).

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