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.
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.
Montana's Indiana Jones
