Applications are due at 5 p.m. Friday for $3,500 grants to help preserve and pass along cultural heritage. Ashland hula teacher Andrea Luchese received one of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) grants last year — an award made after making an exception to the usual guidelines
What may have been the oldest pair of shoes in Europe were discovered in a cave in Spain and are now thought to be much older than scientists previously thought.
NBC News recently published a headline suggesting that woven sandals found in Spain are possibly the world’s oldest — but they are not older than Central Oregon’s ancient sagebrush sandals.
Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin, about a thousand years before their extinction in other parts of North America.
Scientific evidence is starting to pile up: humans came to North America far earlier than we initially thought. For a long time the earliest arrival date was about 13,500 years ago. Now researchers at the University of Oregon have dated human objects to more than 18,000 years ago.
Lexie Briggs wants to make one thing clear: The University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History is not a hidden gem. "We are a gem, but we try not to hide,” she says.
Large-scale wildfires, possibly started by humans, in an ecosystem made fire-prone by climate change caused the disappearance of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and other large mammals in Southern California nearly 13,000 years ago.
The documentary “Outliers and Outlaws” tells the story of lesbians in Eugene: Why they came. What they did. A showing of the nearly-finished film takes place this week at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
The University of Oregon’s Oregon Folklife Network is accepting applications until Monday, October 2, for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for projects in 2024.
