Ryan Shell

We'd like to thank all of our donors (who used their real names) in our Acknowledgements. If that is something you dont want to see, please message me or leave a comment here.We are hoping to have ...

This will be either the last or second to last note on this project. I'd like to thank all of you for making this project possible!First of all, lets talk about dates. Of the 12 sites, only 4 for w...

After looking and pollens and re-identifying a number of vertebrate subfossils, we have a much better understanding of the ages of our four oldest sites. The (fairly rough) picture above displays t...

At OT003, the site with remains from predators like the Gray Wolf, Red Fox, and Bobcat, we are beginning pollen analysis (see our previous lab note). We seem to finding elm pollen, just as we found...

We began looking at soil from SF001: the waterfall site with human remains. Most of the sediment was dervied from the dolomite ceiling of the overhang and pollens were fairly rare.That being said w...

Thanks to everyone for their donations! Moving forward we are able to get at least one decent radiocarbon date, as well as results from pollen analysis very soon.There are four sites of significanc...

Hi everyone! I've just returned from Cretaceous Field work in the Glendive area of Eastern Montana and I thought I'd share some information about the only group of reptiles we've found so far: the ...

Our record of human use of the caves and bluffs in Taylorsville Metropark is.... fairly scant compared to other animals. We occasionally find the remains of a poached or illegally dumped White tail...

Bobcats, Lynx rufus, were once common in Ohio before dying out atound 1850. The cause of this die out was likely a mixture or habitat loss, hunting, competition etc surrounding the settling of the ...