Underground History is a regular monthly feature on the 老夫子传媒 Exchange. The segment spotlights little-known aspects of Oregon's history through the lens of archaeology and is produced in collaboration with the . SOULA Director Chelsea Rose co-produces the segment.
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Chelsea Rose talks with researchers offer historical context and education about the history of Black Americans in Oregon. -
Chelsea Rose digs into the recent past in this episode of Underground History.
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Southern Oregon University Anthropologist and host Chelsea Rose speaks with Dr. Elissa Bullion, the newly appointed physical anthropologist for the Legislative Commission on Indian Services.
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On Sept. 2, 2022 a fire erupted in the Roseburg Forest Products mill in Weed, California. Over the course of this devastating fire, it burned thousands of acres and leveled more than 100 structures. Much of that loss was in Lincoln Heights, a historically Black neighborhood dating to the 1920s. -
Carl Feagans is an archaeologist for the US Forest Service and a frequent critic of amateur or "pseudo" archaeology... including a new Netflix series on ancient societies vanishing (or maybe never existing). -
Peter Boag tells on his book "Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon." -
While JPR listeners get a monthly dose of archaeology, for many people archaeology still equals Egyptian pyramids, faraway lands, lassos, and fancy hats. -
The Lincoln Heights community in Weed, California lost 100 homes in the 2022 Mill Fire. Anthropologists are researching the site which was historic homes of Black workers from the deep south. -
Terms of derision applied to the landscape multiplied. Chelsea Rose from SOULA takes up the topic with Kimberly Moreland of Oregon Black Pioneers, focused on recent moves to take those terms off the map. -
Chelsea and Douglas Wilson and Katie Wynia from Portland State University, who lead the dig team at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River, across from Portland. -
Chelsea Rose from SOULA returns, along with Scott Williams, who works for Washington DOT but also heads the Marine Archaeology Society. They are joined by Robert Kentta, who heads the cultural resources operations at the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. -
Underground History explores the Gin Lin Mining area in Applegate Valley, Oregon. -
Signs of long-ago human habitation have been found in both Oregon and New Mexico, and New Mexico currently holds an edge: footprints that may date back to the last ice age. -
Researchers in the Maryland Department of Transportation believe they have found the site where Tubman's birth family once lived. This is the subject matter for this month's edition of Underground History.
