On Thursday, April 4, the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History Education Manager Mia Jackson unpacked the Native Innovation Museum Adventures traveling exhibit at its first stop in Grand Ronde.
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.
“This exhibit is unique because I think that we… everybody looks up at the night sky and sees the stars are laid before us,” said Lexie Briggs. “But I think that having these images and being able to get close to them and feel part of a larger sort of cosmos is really, really cool.”
Kent Gibson, of Newport, was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Katherine Palmer Award, nominated by Dr. Edward Davis of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
University of Oregon archaeology professor Scott Fitzpatrick says humans made similar advances thousands of years ago when they traveled vast distances to populate remote islands.
