Saturday, September 9th

September is Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month, so join us at the Washakie Museum for our Archaeology Symposium!
This FREE event is open to everyone and will even include lunch!

Speakers: 9am-2pm

PRESENTATIONS BY:

Dr. Maddie Mackie & Dr. Bree Doering
40 Years Later: New Work on the Colby Mammoth Site

Hillary Jones & Matt Bangeman
Site Structure and Geoarchaeology:
How We Know What We Think We Know

Mike Bies
An Overview of the Rock Art in the Wind River and Big Horn River Basins
 
Richard Olsen
Public Archaeology: Education and Opportunity

Field Trip: 2pm-5pm

(MUST pre-register; open to the first 30 sign-ups)

Come and listen to talks from archaeologists working in and around the Bighorn Basin and then, be sure to SIGN-UP for the FIELD TRIP to a private petroglyph site led by Mike Bies and BLM archaeologist Hillary Jones.

The field trip will be approximately 3 hours (2pm-5pm) and will require participants to be able to walk on uneven surfaces. Car-pooling will be necessary. The field trip will depart from, and return to, the museum parking lot. The field trip is free, but limited to 30 people and pre-registration is required.

REGISTER

This program was made possible through a grant from Wyoming Humanities