Upcoming events

    • 6 Apr 2024
    • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • 20

    Do you want to be an ASCO Steward?
    Training day is April 6th

    Leader: John Zancanella

    Saturday, April 6, 2024

    Stewardship Coordinator: Josie Powell, j.powell1043@gmail.com


    Do you want to be an ASCO Steward? Our annual training will be held on Saturday April 6th. We will meet at 10:00 am at the Badlands Rock Trailhead, it is about 15 miles east of Bend on Hwy 20. John Zancanella, a retired BLM Archaeologist, will do the training. John is very knowledgeable and will show you both historic and pre-contact sites. You will learn about the federal, state, and local laws regarding archaeological sites and artifacts. You will also learn the duties and safety factors of stewardship.

    What do stewards do? Why is it important? You have heard a lot about the ASCO stewardship program, and you may wonder what we do and why do we do it. The stewardship program began in the 1990s and is still one of ASCO’s most important programs. We steward over 50 sites in a 5-county area, Klamath County, Lake County, Jefferson County, Crook County and Deschutes County. We currently have over 30 stewards. We work with archaeologists in several agencies: US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of Reclamation. ASCO has the only stewardship program in all of Oregon.

    Stewards do important work. We monitor vulnerable historic and pre-contact sites on a regular basis and report any damage or concerns to our agency archaeologists and the ASCO stewardship coordinator. We play a vital role in the preservation of Central Oregon sites. If you are interested in becoming a steward or if you want to learn more about ASCO Stewardship, please contact me. We need more dedicated stewards!!


    Josie Powell

    ASCO Stewardship Coordinator

    j.powell1043@gmail.com

    • 16 May 2024
    • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Larkspur Community Center, Room TBD

    ASCO is Celebrating its 30th Anniversary!

       
          

      

    ASCO has been busy!


    Please join us to celebrate 30 years of presentations, stewardship, outreach, and community!  Additional activities are TBD.


    NOTE change in location and time!

    Location:  Larkspur Community Center   


    Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 6:30 pm.  Come at 6:00 pm for refreshments and socializing.

    • 1 Jun 2024
    • 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
    • Deschutes Historical Museum, Bend


    Click HERE for details on the Central Oregon Event

    • 8 Jun 2024
    • 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
    • 20

    A Picnic for All ASCO Stewards!

    Saturday, June 8, 2024

    Stewardship Coordinator: Josie Powell, j.powell1043@gmail.com


    We want to thank all ASCO Stewards for all of their great work.  We invite all Stewards and Agency Archaeologists to a picnic at Compass Park's large shelter.  If you have any questions, please contact me. 


    Josie Powell

    ASCO Stewardship Coordinator

    j.powell1043@gmail.com

Past events

28 Mar 2024 What’s New at the Connley Caves and in Western Stemmed Tradition Research? by K. McDonough and R. Rosencrance
5 Feb 2024 Know Puzzles: Puzzling Out the Past by Eileen Gose
4 Jan 2024 Survivance and the Deep Great Basin Past by Dr. David Hurst Thomas
18 Nov 2023 Archaeology Roadshow 2023 - The Dalles Event
16 Nov 2023 Exploring Purpose and Context: Spirit Power, Doctoring, and Gambling Medicine in Klamath Basin Rock Art by Dr. Robert David
18 Oct 2023 Great Basin Anthropological Conference
7 Oct 2023 McKenzie Pass Toll Road
4 Oct 2023 Interactive Archaeology Presentation by Eileen Gose
21 Sep 2023 Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northern Great Basin
10 Sep 2023 Rock Art: More than Just Images by Eileen Gose
18 Jul 2023 Rimrock Draw Rockshelter Field Trip
24 Jun 2023 Archaeology Roadshow 2023 - Harney County Event
24 Jun 2023 Rock Art - Hart Mountain & Long Lake
13 Jun 2023 ASCO Board Meeting
11 Jun 2023 ASCO Stewardship Picnic
10 Jun 2023 Early Central Oregon Railroad Roads
27 May 2023 Archaeology Roadshow 2023 - Central Oregon Event
18 May 2023 Deschutes River Railroad War, 1909 - 1911 by Steve Lent
13 May 2023 Archaeology Roadshow 2023 - Portland Event
5 May 2023 Rock Art Field Trip “She Who Watches” & “Temani Pesh-Wah”
2 May 2023 Rock Art: More than Just Images by Eileen Gose
6 Apr 2023 Growing Up in the Ice Age: Were Children Drivers of Human Cultural Evolution? by Dr. April Nowell
16 Mar 2023 New Discoveries at the Cooper's Ferry Site in Western Idaho Push Projectile Technology Back to 16,000 years ago by Dr. Loren G. Davis
16 Feb 2023 The Roles and Research of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History Archaeology Field School by Katelyn McDonough
7 Feb 2023 ASCO Board Meeting
19 Jan 2023 12,600 Years of Perishable Technologies at Cougar Mountain Cave, Oregon by Richie Rosencrance
3 Jan 2023 ASCO Board Meeting
8 Dec 2022 Archaeology and the Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin & General Meeting
6 Dec 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
1 Nov 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
20 Oct 2022 Water and Wind: Paleoenvironmental and Archaeological Correlations at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter
17 Oct 2022 Glass Buttes Day Trip
4 Oct 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
28 Sep 2022 Arnold Ice Cave Complex Walking Tour
22 Sep 2022 Evidence of Humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum
6 Sep 2022 ASCO Board meeting
21 Jul 2022 Connley Cave Rock Shelter Field Trip
30 Jun 2022 Waldo Lake History, Precontact to Present Times
7 Jun 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
21 May 2022 Pioneer Roads Field Trip with John Zancanella
13 May 2022 Tumalo Dam & 1914 Wimer Ranch Field Trip
12 May 2022 The Dam Fiasco at Bull Flat
3 May 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
1 May 2022 Example ASCO Field Trip
21 Apr 2022 Getting Blood From a Stone: Excavations at a Paleolithic Oasis in Jordan by Dr. April Nowell
5 Apr 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
17 Mar 2022 Wenas Creek Mammoth Dig by Patrick Lubinski
1 Mar 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
17 Feb 2022 15,000 Years of Great Basin Archaeology by Dennis Jenkins
3 Feb 2022 Oregon Historical Society presents: Centering Chinese History in Oregon: A panel discussion
1 Feb 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
13 Jan 2022 Connley Caves Talk by Katelyn Mcdonough
4 Jan 2022 ASCO Board Meeting
9 Dec 2021 Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northern Great Basin by Scott Thomas
2 Nov 2021 ASCO Board Meeting
14 Oct 2021 Archaeology of the Portland Area by Virginia Butler
5 Oct 2021 ASCO Board Meeting
30 Sep 2021 All Member Meeting
10 Sep 2021 Glass Buttes Obsidian Field Trip (cancelled)
7 Sep 2021 ASCO Board Meeting
17 Aug 2021 Pioneer Roads Field Trip (Cancelled)
22 Jul 2021 Connley Cave Rock Shelter Field Trip
13 Jul 2021 Rimrock Draw Rockshelter Field Trip
18 Jun 2021 Elk Lake Guard Station & Devil’s Pass Rock Art Field Trip
29 Apr 2021 April Presentation: Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project and gold mining in the John Day area by Donn Hann
18 Mar 2021 March Presentation: Tribal member and Archaeologist Dr. Robert David educates us on Shamanism and myths from a Modoc petroglyph site
18 Feb 2021 February Presentation: Dr. Loren G. Davis on Cooper's Ferry Site in Idaho
21 Jan 2021 January Presentation: Paul Claeyssens on How Archaeological Work is Effected by Wildfire
10 Dec 2020 December Presentation: Dr. Virginia L. Butler on The Ciwicen Village Site in Port Angeles, WA
19 Nov 2020 November Presentation: Dr. Michel Waller provides insights into our human evolution ​by examining tool-use in different species
17 Sep 2020 September Presentation: Dr. Dennis Jenkins on his latest findings from ​15,000-year-old sites in the Oregon High Desert
6 Oct 2017 Cascadia Cave with Tony Farque Field Trip
20 May 2017 Paisley Caves with Dennis Jenkins Field Trip
1 Jun 2016 Alvord Desert with Scott Thomas Field Trip
18 Jun 2014 Skull Creek Dunes with Scott Thomas Field Trip
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