2024 Field Season at Bluefish Caves
This July, Dr. Lauren Norman went with a team of researchers from the Odyssey Archaeological Research Program at KU for another field season at Bluefish Caves. Bluefish Caves, located in Yukon, Canada near the Vuntut Gwitch’in community of Old Crow, may contain the earliest evidence of humans in North America. The Odyssey team, led by Dr. Rolfe Mandel, has collaborated with the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and the Yukon Government to excavate the site site since 2019. This year marked the fourth field season, with excavations at Cave 4. You can read more about the work at Bluefish here.
Camp at the Bluefish Cave site surrounded by the 12,000 volt fence to protect the team from bears.
Dr. Norman, Kansas Geological Survey postdoc Dr. Lauriane Bourrgeon, and graduate student Lauren Blecker excavating a unit at the Cave 4 site.
Research Assistant Helen Sangster, Research Associate Dr. Kale Bruner, Dr. Bourrgeon, and Lauren Blecker working in Cave 4.
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