SWERV (Savvy Women Exchanging Relevant Views) will gather for the program, “Yama: A Transnational Community,” at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 11 at Filipino American Hall, 7566 High School Road.

All women are invited to hear Caroline Hartse, lead of the anthropology faculty of Olympic College, present the initial findings of an archaeological study of the abandoned site of Japanese village Yama near Port Blakely.

From the 1880s to the 1920s, approximately 300 people inhabited the site while working at the Port Blakely Lumber Mill. Hartse has been the project chair since the study’s inception in 2015. Olympic College anthropologists have collaborated with a number of community organizations to research, document and interpret the site features, which reveal a complex and vibrant transnational community beneath today’s tangled ivy and forest regrowth.