GLASS MOUNTAIN IN KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST

IN THE LATE 1970'S MY HUSBAND AND I SUPERVISED TWO OTHER ACHAEOLOGISTS ON THE KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST. WE SURVEYED A TIMBER SALE WHICH I USED FOR MY MASTER'S THESIS. IT WAS THE LAVA TIMBER SALE. WITHIN THIS AREA WE FOUND A HUGE MOUNTAIN OF BLACK OBSIDIAN CALLED "GLASS MOUNTAIN". THIS MOUNTAIN HAD BEEN USED DURING PREHISTORIC TIMES AS A RICH SOURCE OF OBSIDIAN. IT WAS UNUSUAL IN THAT IT HAD MANY BROKEN PIECES OF OBSIDIAN WHICH HAD BROKEN OFF FROM THIS 20 FOOT TALL MOUNTAIN OF GLASS DURING EITHER HISTORIC OR PREHISTORIC FIRES.

WE RECORDED RECORDED MANY PREHISTORIC KNAPPING STATIONS AND HISTORIC CAN SITES AROUND THIS LARGE GLASS MOUNTAIN. THE LOGGERS BUILT THEIR TRAIN TRACK NEARBY THE MOUNTAIN AND WE RECORDED THE ENTIRE TRAIN TRACK AS ONE HISTORIC SITE USED DURING THE 1930'S. WE ALSO RECORDED AND PHTOGRAPHED MANY DUMPS FROM THE LOGGERS AND DATED SOME OF THE TIN CANS. MY THESIS DESCRIBED A MULTI - LEVEL SURVEY METHOD USED TO LOCATE AND RECORD BOTH HISTRORIC AND PREHISTORIC SITES. WE HAD WORKED ON THE KLAMATH THE PREVIOUS YEAR ALONG THE KLAMATH RIVEWR - A MUCH STEEPER TERRAIN.