North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Duncan McLaren.

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations into late Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological components on the Pacific coast of Canada have uncovered several different approaches to chipped stone manufacturing. The earliest known assemblages are associated with calibrated radiocarbon ages between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Burns.

This is an abstract from the "Far West Paleoindian Archaeology: Papers from the Next Generation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cooper’s Ferry (Nipéhe), located in the Lower Salmon River Canyon in western Idaho, is currently the oldest published radiocarbon-dated archaeological site in North America, with dates as early as ~16,000 cal BP. As this site is south of the southernmost extent of the continental ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Koetje.

In addition to other sites in the middle Salish Sea, Western Washington University field schools have conducted several years of test excavation at 45WH55, resulting in an extensive collection from several spatially distinct areas of the site. Leukoma seasonality and maturity from samples in each area are used to address questions of site integrity and season of occupation. Comparable data from other sites in the region allows preliminary assessment of larger scale movement and seasonality...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tia Cody. Shelby Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "Future Directions for Archaeology and Heritage Research in the Willamette Valley, Oregon" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation details the development, testing, and results of a lidar and remote sensing predictive model to locate precontact mound sites in the Calapooia Watershed in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Not much is known about these mound sites archaeologically, including where they are located in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Limberg. Christopher Noll.

This is an abstract from the "New Research into the Old Cordilleran" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In western Washington, Olcott sites are generally understood to represent a period of cultural and technological stability that extended through the early Holocene into the middle Holocene. While some researchers have suggested subtle technological evolutionary developments occurred over time, Olcott sites have often been characterized as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Paulson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A new study at the Cooper’s Ferry site (10IH73) located in west central Idaho focuses on the contents of pit feature 110 of Area B. Feature 110 (F110) has been dated between ~9938 ± 36 BP (11,352–11,264 cal BP) and ~9867 ± 36 BP (11,278–11,223 cal BP) and contains WST points, debitage, and faunal remains. Notably, the F110 faunal record includes a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Harris.

The people of the Columbia Plateau have been frequently characterized as a homogenous culture despite a 3,000-year depth of history and large spatial extent. Moreover, differences in artifact form, assemblage composition, and household features belie this characterization. The changing natural and social environment can be detected in modifications in cultural technology, and relationships among distinct groups can be inferred. The research presented here tracks these changes. By using concepts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Krier. Christopher Ruiz. Marlene Jampolsky.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the span of more than a year from 2019 to 2020, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History archaeologists monitored construction work for an affordable housing project in downtown Eugene, Oregon. During the monitoring, Chinese artifacts were found, which opened a window onto the poorly documented history of diasporic Chinese...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Darby.

This is an abstract from the "Pacific Maritime History: Ships and Shipwrecks" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1579 Francis Drake and his crew likely careened the Golden Hind in a “fair and good bay” somewhere on the Northwest Coast, rather than the often-cited California shore. This paper will explore and discuss some of the ethnographic evidence, the strong manuscript evidence, and a few artifacts found in the region that may have been from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Phillips. Erin Younger.

This is an abstract from the "From Middens to Museums: Papers in Honor of Julie K. Stein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Pacific Northwest today, the professional expectation is that archaeology and community are, or at least should be, intertwined. While collaboration and cooperation are not always easy, past projects spearheaded by Dr. Julie Stein, curator and now executive director, at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Holm.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ohanapecosh Area of Mount Rainier National Park contains diverse historic properties associated with multiple types and periods of Significance. The managerial requirements for the cultural resources are, consequently, equally diverse. The resources are archaeological, ethnographic, and structural in nature, and they are associated with the heritages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eve Dewan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the treaty rights guaranteed by the United States government to the more than two dozen Tribes and Bands that were removed to Grande Ronde, Oregon, in the nineteenth century was a formal education. Over the years, that education has taken many forms as children from Grand Ronde have attended several different schools, both on and off the Reservation....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Canaday. Bryan Hanks. Rosemary Capo. Patricia Smith. Benjamin Hedin.

The Frank Church – River of No Return Wilderness in central Idaho contains numerous prehistoric archaeological sites being impacted by recreational use. Sites located along the wild and scenic portion of the Middle Fork Salmon River are especially at-risk because of the thousands of visitors who regularly camp along the river within sensitive site areas. Non-ground disturbing methods were needed to determine whether the sites retain sub-surface integrity. Eight sites have been investigated using...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lenore Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "Cabinets of Curiosities: Collections and Conservation in Archaeological Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Museum assemblages enable and support conservation archaeologies by facilitating comprehensive and multifaceted studies that consider large study areas, time depth, and multiple artifact types. Museums can also work to facilitate ethical research practices by supporting conversation and collaboration...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Lin. Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa. Christina Stantis. Hsiao-Lei Liu. Logan Kistler.

This is an abstract from the "Dogs in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prior to European colonization, Indigenous Coast Salish peoples in the Pacific Northwest traditionally raised a long-haired domestic dog breed to harvest its hair for weaving. The decline of dog-hair weaving has been attributed to the introduction of machine-made blankets by British and American trading companies in the early nineteenth century, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Wilson. Theresa Langford. Meagan Huff.

This is an abstract from the "Navigating Ethical and Legal Quandaries in Modern Archaeological Curation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1947, the National Park Service and its collaborators have excavated at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, a nineteenth-century fur-trade and U.S. Army colonial site in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Museum collections are dominated by archaeological collections from American Indian and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Maloy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is a critical appraisal of cultural resource management protocols associated with Indigenous Culturally Modified Trees, (CMTs). Living artifacts, eco-facts, or vivio-facts provide rich and powerful accounts of human interactions with a setting. These features challenge western views of what constitutes materiality of the past, a recognition,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Continued analysis of materials excavated from Area B at the Cooper’s Ferry site has clarified details about a well dated artifact assemblage containing 11 stemmed projectile points. New radiocarbon analyses show that these stemmed points are significantly older than classic Clovis fluted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristine Bovy. Madonna Moss. Jessica Watson. Julia Parrish.

This is an abstract from the "From Middens to Museums: Papers in Honor of Julie K. Stein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Julie Stein has been a leader in facilitating research on legacy collections in the Pacific Northwest Coast. Although challenges exist when working with existing collections in museums and repositories, re-analyses of these assemblages have the potential to provide valuable information and support the conservation ethic in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Harris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chuchuwayha Research Project focuses on the past use of the Similkameen Valley in south-central British Columbia. The driving question of this research project is how have the Similkameen people used the landscape of the Similkameen Valley over time. The Chuchuwayha rock shelter provides the best lens to understand the use and occupancy in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don Hann.

Cultural resources in wilderness areas can be difficult to manage due to a lack of dedicated funding and few undertakings which trigger survey through the National Historic Preservation Act. After a series of extensive wildfires in the 1990s the Malheur National Forest surveyed much of the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness Area using volunteers from the Forest Service's Passport In Time program. Crews documented several extensive obsidian dominated lithic scatter sites. The debitage and other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennie Deo Shaw. Joyce LeCompte.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2019, construction monitoring of a large, King County-directed levee replacement project identified a diffuse and deeply buried archaeological site on the Green River, south of Seattle, Washington. This poster presents the results of paleoethnobotanical and AMS analyses conducted on plant materials from precontact-era combustion features and pits....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hector Salazar. Anthony Graesch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although critically important to the seasonal work of processing hundreds of thousands of fish for storage, kw’ets’tel, or Stó:lō-Coast Salish slate fish knives, are rarely recovered in the archaeological record. Knife-making debitage, however, is often recovered in great abundance during subsurface investigations in and near Stó:lō dwellings. Debitage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Russell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following a series of catastrophic forest fires in Washington’s Yacolt State Forest and the Gilford Pinchot National Forest between 1902 and 1952, the Washington Division of Forestry partnered with the Washington Department of Institutions to use inmate labor in remote locations to perform forest and fire management duties. Called Honor Camps, these labor...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Dickson. Shawn Steinmetz.

This is an abstract from the "Recognizing and Recording Post-1492 Indigenous Sites in North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tribal members understand history, perhaps better than most communities. It's the concept of prehistory that brings blank stares. As a non-tribal member archaeologist working for a tribe, it's my job to ensure places in the tribes' past (both distant and recent) are adequately addressed under cultural...