Archaeology Month in Idaho - The College of Idaho OJ Smith Museum of Natural History

OJ Smith Museum started Archaeology Month with some never before seen artifacts.

Archeology Month begins Saturday at the Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, Idaho.

May 2008 is Archaeology Month throughout Idaho. The College of Idaho\\\'s Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History will be exhibiting some rarely seen artifacts on Saturday, May 3 from 9 a.m. - 3p.m. The public is invited to view, discuss the artifacts with museum curator and archaeologist Jan Summers Duffy, and join in the monthly museum workday.

In support of Archaeology Month, the museum will show the archaeological and ethnographic items, including basketry, pottery and lithics, many from Idaho sources. Some of the items will be from the collections of The Olga Gonzalez Pre-Columbian Collection, the Meldrum New Guinea Collection, (rare items shown in old issues of National Geographic), the Gates-Lewis Anthropological Collection, Hopi basketry, pottery plus much more. The Warm Springs site large obsidian biface cache will also be featured.

The museum is always looking for student and community volunteers interested in any science to help out on monthly Museum Workdays which are held first Saturday of each month. Speakers touch on many topics from entomology, mammalology, archaeology, egyptology, to just about any topic. Check the museum website for details.

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