Lake Abert
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Lake Abert is a large, shallow, alkali lake in Lake County, Oregon, United States. It is approximately 15 mi long and 7 mi wide at its widest point. It is located 3 mi northeast of the small, unincorp
East shore of Lake Abert
Interpretive sign describing Lake Chewaucan
Lake Abert beyond Abert Rim
Lake Abert seen from space
Paisley Caves
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The Paisley Caves or the Paisley Five Mile Point Caves complex is a system of eight caves in an arid, desolate region of south-central Oregon, United States north of the present-day city of Paisley, O
Lake Abert
…evidence of human utilization of Lake Chewaucan during this time. The earliest evidence for possible human occupation of the basin comes from the Paisley Caves, which were originally excavated by Luther Cressman in the late 1930s. Cressman found inconclusive evidence that humans could have begun an occupation…
A Bureau of Land Management archaeologist walks near Cave No. 5
A coprolite from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, sampled in 2008 by Dr. Dennis LeRoy Jenkins with Oregon State University. Thought to be of human origin, but the morphology is inconsistent and sampled DNA may have been mobilized by fluids. Dated to 12,265 radiocarbon years