RANGELEY — The Rangeley Historical Society’s Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum will present a program on Friday, Aug. 5, on the exploration of the site where ancient American Indians hunted caribou.
In 1979 and 1980, archaeologist Richard Michael Gramly conducted an exploration and excavation of the area where the first visitors to Rangeley arrived 13,000 years ago. The Palaeo-American Indians came to the Upper Magalloway region to hunt migrating caribou.
The site of their encampment and the location where they hunted the caribou was discovered by Francis Vail in 1970. More than 13,000 specimens have been catalogued from the site, nearly half of which are tools or tool fragments.
Gramly consulted during the preparation of the Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum’s exhibit on fluted points, drills, scrapers, fragments and knives from the early period.
He will be at the museum from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday to discuss his work. At 1 p.m. he will present a workshop on “How to Recognize Very Ancient Palaeo-American Tools and Sites in the North Country” and at 7 p.m. he will present a lecture, “Highlights of 32 years of Archaeological Fieldwork in the Upper Magalloway Region, Maine.”
The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday until Labor Day.
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