Beatty Curve

Beatty Curve (State Highway 140), east of Klamath Falls: ODOT is preparing to straighten a dangerous curve, but the route cuts through an archaeological site. Work that began in 2007 has documented the cultural record of occupation by Klamath Indians and their ancestors from more than 8,000 years ago and continuing into the post-reservation era. Included at the site is an allotment-era (Dawes Act) Indian homestead dating to 1890-1915. Klamath Tribal members are helping on both the archaeological study and as part of an accompanying oral history project.

(Photos courtesy of the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Research Division)