October 21, 2019
On October 18th, 2019, the Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society held a lecture as part of Washington State Archaeology Month Event and International Archaeology Day. The lecture, “Aypax-kan-ishchit—The Yakama-Cowlitz Trail: History, Archaeology, and an Approach to Evaluation,” was given by Retired U.S. Forest Service Archaeologist Rick McClure and discussed recent efforts to map and document the 140 mile Yakama (Aypax-kan-ishchit) Trail, one of the principal cross-mountain footpaths used for exchange and social interaction between Indigenous people east and west of the Cascade Mountains in pre-contact and historic times.
Forty-four people attended the evening event at the Mountaineers Seattle Program Center.
