In my last blog post, introducing our plesiosaur exhibit, I promised to follow up with some of the story of how the collectors found, extracted, and prepared the fossils. When I was assembling the exhibit I interviewed Kevin Conlin and Wayne Buckley, since they tell these stories so much better than I ever could. Here are the interviews, which are also on the panels within the exhibit. Kevin Conlin Kevin…
Tag Archives: Pottery
The Old Plesiosaur and the Sea: The Collectors
Posted in Geology & Paleontology Also tagged Cretaceous, exhibit, fieldwork, fossils, museum, paleontology Comments closed
Historical Event in Cross Lake
I recently returned from the community of Cross Lake with a great experience I want to share. We experimented with cooking a meal inside a replica clay pot over a campfire. It wasn’t until we were cooking that we realized that it has probably been over 300 years since a meal was cooked inside a clay pot in northern Manitoba. The pot was made by Grant Goltz (Minnesota) copying one…
Posted in Archaeology, News, Research Also tagged Archaeology, Boreal Forest, Cooking, Experimental Archaeology, First Nations, Manitoba Comments closed
