Jasper Ridge: Documenting a 13,000-Year-Old Archeological Site Near Front Royal

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Education, Lectures, S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), Workshops

Age Group:

Adults, Family
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Description

Join us for an interactive presentation on Jasper Ridge, an archeological dig located in Warren County, VA. Residents are encouraged to attend and bring with them any stone artifacts they have found in Warren County.

Following the presentation your stone artifacts will receive an analysis by an Archeologist.

The Flint Run & Thunderbird complex of late Ice Age sites was first studied and reported on by local avocational archaeologists, Elizabeth Wilkerson and Lanier Rogers of the Northern Shenandoah Chapter of the Archeological Society of Virginia. They reported the site to Dr. William M. Gardner of Catholic University, who led a 15-year investigation of the complex from the late 1960s into the early 1980s.

Jasper Ridge is a newly discovered part of the Flint Run & Thunderbird complex. Dr. Gardner and students found significant evidence of late- and early post-Ice Age (13,000-9,000year-old) prehistoric hotspots, located there mainly because of large jasper stone outcroppings that exist in Warren County. The jasper was especially desirable for making prehistoric stone tools and blades.    

Prehistoric artifacts from the site will be available for public viewing at the event.

 

Presenters:

Mr. Mike Johnson, retired, Senior Archeologist. (former Fairfax County archeologist, 33 yrs., Fairfax County, VA.)

Mr. Robert Richards Jr., MD, Lithic Technician.