Learn more about the Paisley Caves

Published 5:00 am Thursday, August 16, 2012

Dennis Jenkins, a senior research archaeologist from the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, will discuss recent archeological finds in Oregon’s Paisley Caves at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Pozzi Education Center of the Sunriver Nature Center.

Recent finds have strengthened the theory of multiple migrations to the Americas from the Asian continent. Radiocarbon dating of camel and horse bones, bone and wood tools, saltbush twigs and dried human feces containing Native American DNA indicate that people lived in the caves and may have hunted camels, horses, mammoths or mastodons and bison at the end of the ice age.

Tickets cost $10 for individuals, $8 for Sunriver Nature Center members and $3 for students with ID. Tickets available in advance: 541-593-4394 or 541-593-4442, or at the door.

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