Idaho

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Archaeological Sites

Broken Bowl
A 19th century gold mining town in Idaho, focus of a 1999 field school from Georgia Southern University.

Research Institutions

Center for Environmental Archaeology
Texas A&M, investigations into sites in the Southern Plains, the Rocky Mountains, Kenya, and the Yucatan Peninsula.

Idaho Bureau of Land Management
Supports and administers archaeological research on BLM lands in Idaho.

Idaho State University Pocatello
MA, MS

University of Idaho Moscow
MA

Current Researchers

Robert L. Bettinger and Jelmer Eerkens
Point typologies, cultural transmission, and the spread of bow-and-arrow technology in the prehistoric Great Basin, article abstract in American Antiquity.

Cultural History

On the Oregon Trail
From the PBS documentary of the same name, information on a handful of historic sites on the Oregon Trail in Idaho.

General Information

Archaeology at About.com

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