Guest Speaker Jan 9, 2014 - Christine Mueller
Posted by Marina Lamb
on Jan 13, 2014
Jan 9, 2014 ~ At Thursday's meeting, Rotary members had the pleasure of listening to Christine Mueller talk about the Archaeology Site on the Lucy Islands.
Here is some of the Islands' history:
The First archaeological investigations on the Lucy Islands date back to 1968 when the site was identified as a shell midden by George MacDonald of the Canadian Museum (click on more to read the rest of the history)
of Civilization.
Included in his North Coast Prehistory Project, two separate trenches were excavated, producing a variety of artifacts as well as charcoal samples dating the site to approximately 2500 years ago. Importantly for our more recent work, these dated samples came from the excavation unit located near the shore, while the upper bench excavation was not dated as no charcoal was recovered. At the time a small, second shell deposit was noted further along the boardwalk at considerable distance from the shoreline. While Gb Tp-1 (the official site name for the archaeological site) was subsequently revisited, no archaeological work was undertaken again until 2010.
The only notable archaeological event in the intervening years occurred in the mid 1980's when some human remains that had eroded out of a section of exposed shell midden were recovered by David Archer and sent, with the consent of local First Nations, to Dr. Jerome Cybulski, and expert on North West Coast human remains.
For more information, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Islands