Archaeology and the Hunt: Wild Sheep and Long Ago Person Found
(Room A2)
09 Feb 19
1:30 PM
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2:30 PM
While hunting Dall sheep in the spectacularly wild Tatshenshini/Alsek Wilderness Park in 1999, Bill Hanlon and his two hunting partners discovered the preserved remains of an ancient hunter emerging from the ice on the edge of a glacier. Now, almost 20 years later, Bill tells the story of this life-changing discovery and the three subsequent expeditions back to the discovery site of Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi or “Long Ago Person Found”. Speaker: Bill Hanlon is a wilderness hunter, backcountry horseman and wilderness advocate. He has been involved with various conservation organizations for thirty years in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia. He is presently the chair of the British Columbia Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and co-founder of the Hornaday Wilderness Society and was recently named to the North American Board of Directors for Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. Bill spends as much time as he can spare horse packing, backpacking and hunting - especially for wild sheep - in the wildest places remaining in British Columbia - because there is no better place to be a sheep hunter than in BC.