Katie Johnson is a staff archaeologist at the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology. Katie will be directing the analysis of the several thousand animal and fish bones recovered from the Jacksonville Chinese Quarter Site. You can reach SOULA by contacting Chelsea Rose at rosec@sou.edu and follow SOULA on Facebook/Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology. 
The Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology (SOULA) excavations at the Jacksonville Chinese Quarter Site not only resulted in the recovery of thousands of household artifacts, but also tens of thousands of fragments of bird, fish, and animal bones—that’s over 30 pounds of bone alone! These remains include mammal bones from […]
Chinese immigrants were an important part of early Jacksonville. Despite this, they were often victims of racist stereotypes both during the occupation of the Chinese Quarter, and today, through misrepresentations (or omissions) in the history of the American West. While this is part of a much larger discussion, some of the […]