| Breath-taking view (above) overlooking realignment of U.S. Highway 20 between Corvallis and Newport near the Yaquina River in the Coast Range. As originally designed, the new alignment would go through an archaeological site which museum archaeologists have since confirmed as being a 1,000-year-old fishing camp. The discovery led to the road-straightening work being shifted to the north to protect the site. Below left shows archaeologists working near new bridge footings, and, at right, are a polished adze and splitting wedge -- stone woodworking tools -- recovered from the site. |
