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| bears arriving below the site to fish for spawning salmon |
It must be almost Fall because the Archaeology field season is over - for me at least. I just got back from a remote 2 week excavation on the banks of Thumb Creek - a tributary into Karluk Lake. We excavated a 4-5 thousand year old fish camp above the Creek. There was also a 1000-year old camp on top of the site. During the dig we learned a lot about past life on Thumb Creek, and this will be the subject of a future blog post.
We camped up on Thumb Lake and walked a 1/2 mile back and forth from camp to the site every day. This year there were a lot of bears. Red salmon spawn in the creek below the site and there were almost always a few bears down below us in the creek trying to catch fish. You'd hear them splashing up and down the creek chasing the fish. The bears are there for the same reason people camped there in the past. In late summer it is an easy place to catch a lot of fish.
Anyway, I am now back! In the next week I'll post more details about our trip and on the archaeological results.
Patrick
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| cottonwood trees by the trail to our camp from the site |
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| Thumb Lake reflections |
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| fireweed - getting a late start this year! |
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| Our camp on Thumb Lake |
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| A 4-5K year old serrated, ground slate bayonet from the site |
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| beaver paddling in Thumb Lake |
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