Marmes Rockshelter Site, 1968
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This is what the site looked like before the Lower Monumental Dam reservoir was allowed to swallow the archeological site. Although its size is hard to determine through this photo, the Rockshelter's entrance is around 25-feet high.
Image courtesy of Washington State University, Museum of Anthropology.
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Prehistory in the Palouse: Marmes Rockshelter
In 1952, a Palouse farmer named Roland "Squirt" Marmes discovered a strange rock formation on his property near the town of Hooper, Washington. That same year, another Hooper rancher named John…