Mary Levin Amanda Taylor, left, and Julie Stein, co-editors of "Is it a House?" Stein said, "Every single thing you turn over is a little charge. People always say what’s the coolest thign you’ve found? Everything I find is the coolest thing I find!"
It's a powerful feeling, says anthropology graduate student Amanda Taylor, to stand where people stood thousands of years back and gaze out at the same water — the same sunsets — that they saw so long ago.
- "Maybe you reach down and see an artifact, and they last dropped that artifact a thousand years ago,” she said. "No one has looked at it or touched it, or even thought about it. And when you pick it up and look at it, it's like you have this instant connection to the person who left it there. Taylor is co-editor, with Burke Museum Director Julie Stein, of a new book from University of Washington Press titled "Is it a House?” The book details archaeological excavations at English Camp, on San Juan Island facing the Gulf of Georgia, conducted by Stein and her students over many years. Each chapter addresses a different kind of material found in the area, such as bone and stone artifacts and shell remnants. Other contributors include Cristie Boone, Kristine Bovy, Chin-yung Chao, Angela Close, Phoebe Daniels, J. Tyler Faith, Debra Green, Robert Kopperl, Mary Parr, Laura Phillips, Sarah Sherwood and Catherine Foster West.
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