Join us for a Laboratory of Archaeology Talk with Megan Harris (UBC)
When and Where
May 30, 11AM – 12PM
Borden Research Room, MOA, 6393 NW Marine Drive
Megan Harris
Megan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. They have been working in BC cultural resource management since 2012. They have a BA from UBC and an MA from SFU. Their dissertation research focuses on the paleoethnobotanical remains from Chuchuwayha.
The Chuchuwayha Rock Shelter: Ongoing Excavations and Analyses
Since 2016, excavations have been ongoing at the Chuchuwayha Rock Shelter within the traditional territory of the Upper Similkameen Indian Band in the Similkameen Valley of British Columbia. The Chuchuwayha Research Project is a multi-disciplinary collaborative research project between the Upper Similkameen Indian, UBC, the Universite Savoie Mont Blanc, the French Consulate, and Laboratoire du Carbon 14.
The Chuchuwayha Rockshelter has long been considered among the most potentially scientifically important rockshelters in Canada. It has several significant pictograph panels and its depositional environment is largely intact over the Holocene period (11,700 BP to today). In studying the deposits of this rockshelter, we seek to understand the geomorphological processes of the site, a detailed radiometric chronology of the cultural deposits, a detailed analysis of flora, fauna, lithic, and a scientific date for the pictographs.
This presentation highlights the excavation techniques and the ongoing results of the excavations at the Chuchuwayha Rock Shelter with a focus on the lithics and macrobotanicals recovered to date.
