A Search for Vanished People
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1994.3.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Patapoff, Elizabeth
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content: Elizabeth Patapoff videos
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (29 minutes, color sound; VHS)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Television program produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting follows Dr. Luther Cressman, a researcher and writer of western United States prehistory, as he explores the caves of southeastern Oregon.   

Segments from a 1939 film included in the program document the first archaeological excavations at Roaring Spring Cave and Fort Rock Cave.  Artifacts discovered in these caves such as the bones of extinct animals an atlatl, or throwing stick, woven basketry fragments and sagebrush sandals, carbon dated to 13,000 years ago enabled Dr. Cressman to describe the lives of the earliest inhabitants of the Northern Great Basin.