Archaeology

Archaeologist Chris Yamamoto visits the Burke to view artifacts found in the Japanese Gulch.

Burke researchers learn more about the Burke’s Balinese “jukung” outrigger canoe.

A 1992 construction site led to a significant discovery of cultural remains of local Native Americans that lived at and used the site for thousands of years.

Seattle is one of the most dramatically re-engineered cities in the United States.

Burke archaeologists are working to preserve ancestral artifacts owned by the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in the North Cascades.

Information about The Ancient One/Kennewick Man, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America.

Beginning 4,000 years ago, people shifted from living solely on wild foods to farming and raising domestic animals. Why did this change occur?

More than fifty years ago, a 25-foot-long dugout canoe was found eroding out of a muddy bank of the Green River.

This stone woodcarving adze—broken and embedded in a piece of cedar—is unlike most items in our archaeological collections.