The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The oldest archaeological sites in the Pacific Northwest like Paisley Caves and Cooper’s Ferry get a lot of well-deserved attention. However, there are slightly younger or less studied sites that are underreported in the scientific literature. When viewed together, these lesser-known sites add important details to our understanding of how people lived in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. This symposium brings together recent archaeological research from across the Pacific Northwest to build a richer picture of life during the transition out of the Pleistocene.