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Prairie Skyscrapers: Disappearing Artifacts of Central Montana’s Agricultural Landscapes

The History and Heritage Public Lecture Series and Preserve Historic Missoula teamed up to present “Prairie Skyscrapers: Disappearing Artifacts of Central Montana’s Agricultural Landscapes”. Kate Geer and Jared Schmitz, both with A&E Design, discussed the history and future of grain elevators throughout Montana.

MAS 2025 Keynote Address, Dr. Maria Nieves Zedeño: Billy Big Spring and the Blackfoot Early Origins Program

Dr. Maria Nieves Zedeño gave the keynote address at the 2025 meeting of the Montana Archaeological Society in Livingston, Montana on April 12. Her work with the Blackfoot Confederacy in collaboration with genomic researchers shows that “the genomics of sampled individuals from the Blackfoot Confederacy belong to a previously undescribed ancient lineage that diverged from other genomic lineages in the Americas in Late Pleistocene times.” During her talk, Dr. Zedeño described her work along with co-author Francois Lanoë in northern Montana at the Billy Big Spring site and the fascinating details of discovering evidence of the Blackfoot people in Montana and Canada during Pleistocene glacial times.

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MAS 2025 Film Screening: The Life & Legend of John Colter

This film by geologist/filmmaker Daniel Smith was shown on day one of MAS 2025. Interpretive biologist and storyteller Ken Sinay who told the story in the film was available to discuss Colter’s legend and the sources including Lewis & Clark’s journals and other fur trapper journals from the early nineteenth century.

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Montana's Indiana Jones

Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Montana's Indiana Jones

For over fifty years Montana archaeologist Les Davis excavated sites across Montana searching for evidence of the first Montanans...

Antiquity of Man

Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Episode 2: Antiquity of Man

Prior to 1859, the concept of prehistory did not exist. Archbishop Ussher had calculated from biblical scripture that the earth was around 6,000 years old...

Archaeology in Montana

Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Epiode 3 - Archaeology in Montana

From the excavation of the Lindsay mammoth in 1967, Les Davis was the most prolific Montana archaeologist in the twentieth century...

Search For the First Montanans

Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Episode 4 - Search For the First Montanans

This episode explores some of the most exciting and revealing Les Davis sites uncovering evidence of human occupation in Montana to at least the end of the ice age...

Paleo Indian Lifeways

Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Episode 5 - Paleo Indian Lifeways

This is the story of a collaboration between Glacier National Park, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation and the Blackfeet Nation that explored ice patches in Glacier National Park, Montana.

People of the Hearth

People of the Hearth

Famed Montana archaeologist Leslie B. Davis excavates a 9,400 year old paleo-kitchen site in southwestern Montana in the early 1990s.

History of Archaeology

The History of Archaeology in Montana

This is a Dirt on the Past audio podcast from the Extreme History Project with Nancy Mahoney.

People of the Hearth

People of the Hearth

Famed Montana archaeologist Leslie B. Davis excavates a 9,400 year old paleo-kitchen site in southwestern Montana in the early 1990s.

Aaron Brien

Aaron Brien TED Talk

Many aspects of Crow culture can be traced back to the act of fasting. In this talk, Aaron draws on his Apsaalooke background along with his training as an anthropologist to illuminate this connection.

Cemetery Tour

Dean Nicolai Keynote at the 2024 MAS Meeting

Dean Sonneah Nicolai (Bitterroot Salish), is the department chair for the Tribal Historic Preservation Program at Salish Kootenai College. Nicolai’s interests focus on Indigenous research methodologies in cultural resource management and archaeology.

Cemetery Tour

Tour of Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, MT

Crystal Alegria of Extreme History Project leads a tour of Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman for the Montana Archaeological Society Meeting 2023.

Ice Patch Glacier

Ice Patch Archaeology in Glacier National Park

This is the story of a collaboration between Glacier National Park, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation and the Blackfeet Nation that explored ice patches in Glacier National Park, Montana.

MAPP in Montana

MAPP Montana The National Preservation Act in Big Sky Country

In a unique blend of scripted drama and feature-film caliber visual effects, intercut with documentary sequences.