Archaeology in Montana and Yellowstone
Archaeology in Montana began with Lewis & Clark. They first recorded petroglyphs on Pompey’s Piller, stick lodges along the Yellowstone river and recent buffalo jumps with rotting bison carcasses.
Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Montana's Indiana Jones
Montana's Indiana Jones
For over fifty years Montana archaeologist Les Davis excavated sites across Montana searching for evidence of the first Montanans...
Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Episode 2: Antiquity of Man
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...
Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Epiode 3 - Archaeology in Montana
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...
Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Episode 4 - 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...
Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans
Episode 5 - Paleo Indian Lifeways
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.
