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

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Evolution for the People: Big Data, Big Software, and How Compliance Archaeology is the Missing Link of Evolutionary Archaeology (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Rorabaugh.

This is an abstract from the "Practical Approaches to Identifying Evolutionary Processes in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A growing concern in archaeology is the potential inaccessibility of various methodological and theoretical approaches in non-academic contexts. Open access and open source software (R, Quantum GIS, ImageJ) provide means for applying complex analyses within a budget, but due to cybersecurity...


Examining Patterns of Toolstone Procurement in an Edible Lithic Landscape on the Columbia Plateau (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ron Adams.

Expansive outcrops of high-quality cryptocrystalline silicate toolstone occur in many localities within the Columbia Plateau region of North America. Archaeological evidence indicates that these locations were utilized extensively by pre-contact Native American groups. The geological processes that shaped these landforms and produced outcropping lithic material also created ideal conditions for the growth plant food resources, particularly root crops. These root crops thrive on the lithosols...


Excavation of a Red Ochre Cache in a Natural Geological Kettle Formation in the Central Interior of British Columbia. (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Evaschuk. Keli Watson. Mike Robertson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations of natural geological kettle formations are uncommon in Cultural Resource Management projects in British Columbia. Discovery of a large cache of processed red ochre is even more rare with only one similar ochre cache known to exist on the Canadian Plateau. Ochre is an iron oxide prevalent in the Rainbow Mountain Range, part of the Anahim...


Experimental Approaches to Understanding Variability in Fire-Modified Rock Fracture Patterns (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Randall Schalk.

This is an abstract from the "Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have frequently conducted rock firing experiments to better understand different fracture patterns in fire-modified rock (FMR). These experiments have had varying degrees of control and their results have been difficult to interpret. This paper considers why this is the case and suggests that rock fracture...


An Experimental Archaeological and Digital Approach to Understanding the Manufacture of Slate Fishing Knives in Southwestern British Columbia (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Graesch. Annette Davis. Sarah Harris. Andrew Prunk. Hector Salazar.

Despite longstanding anthropological concerns with the origins of intensive delayed-return subsistence economies on the Northwest Coast, the use and production of slate fishing knives has received little attention. Owing to specific design attributes, thin slate fishing knives were critical to the necessarily efficient and rapid processing of tens of thousands of salmon in a span of only three or four months. Although anthropologists have a reasonably good understanding of how slate knives were...


Exploring High-Elevation Social-Ecological Relationships through Two Pilot Field Seasons of the Central Cascades Alpine Land-Use and Fire History Project (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant Snitker. Sean Bergin. Jonathan Paige. Anna Jansson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precontact archaeology in Washington State’s Central Cascades is not well studied due to the region’s remote location and perception as a marginal area separating cultural centers in the western and eastern portions of the state. Recent research in the adjacent North and South Cascades (i.e., North Cascades National Park and Mt. Rainier National Park) has...


Feature Content Analysis: Comparing Trends in Tool Use and Storage Strategies at Bridge River (EeRl-4), British Columbia (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Nowell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis of household storage strategies at the Bridge River Village in the British Columbia interior during the late prehistoric period has shown that there is potential to gain a better understanding of the accumulation of social capital at the household level. This poster incorporates feature content analysis of tools and raw materials from a series of...


Finding a Grand Ronde Way: Building Epistemological Bridges through Collaborative Field Practice (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara L. Gonzalez.

In the language of self-determination, an indigenous archaeology is an expression of the sovereignty of a tribal nation to determine how its heritage will be cared for, now and into the future. Tribes, however, encounter several capacity-related challenges in developing tribally-specific heritage management plans. These challenges include the lack of funding for tribal historic preservation and repatriation, shortage of qualified staff, and, most significantly, operating within a heritage...


Finding Fort Clatsop: Results of Fresh Geophysical Surveys and GIS Integration of Past Data (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Baley. Cameron Blumhardt. Kate Shantry. Glen Kirkpatrick. Colin Grier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, Washington State University archaeologists working in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and the National Parks Service conducted a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey of the famous Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Site— Fort Clatsop, Oregon— in a fresh attempt to locate the remains of the fort. Evidence associated with...


Finding Old Detroit: Recovering and Interpreting the Histories of Communities Displaced by River Development Projects (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bob Reinhardt.

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. Driving along Highway 22 in the western Cascade mountains of Oregon, motorists can’t help but notice Detroit Lake (created by Detroit Dam, a US Army Corps of Engineers multipurpose river development project) and the small town of Detroit on the reservoir’s banks. But they can’t see the site of Old...


Fine-Grained Estimation of House Populations in North America’s Pacific Northwest: Implications for Understanding Socio-demographic Change (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Prentiss. Ashley Hampton. Thomas Foor. Matthew Walsh.

This is an abstract from the "Peopling the Past: Critically Evaluating Settlement and Regional Population Estimates with New Methods and Demographic Modeling" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists benefit from theoretical modeling in demographic ecology. Models generated by Bruce Winterhalder, Cedric Puleston, and colleagues provide us with precise predictions as to conditions favoring population growth, stability, decline, and associated...


Fire-Cracked Rock: Domestic Life and Subsistence Practice, a Case Study in Coast Salish Territory (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabiola Sanchez.

This is an abstract from the "Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Two of the most common features that frequently appear in many Northwest Coast archaeological sites are pit ovens and rock griddles with abundant remains of rock heating elements or fire-cracked rocks (FCR). Ethnohistorical and ethnographic sources have provided documentation of the different types of culinary traditions and...


A Flood of Support: Collaborative Cultural Resources Management at the Willamette Valley Project, US Army Corps of Engineers (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Casperson.

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. The Willamette Valley Project (WVP) is a Corps-managed flood risk management system composed of 13 dams and reservoirs spread across six subbasins in the upper Willamette River watershed. The construction of the dam system occurred 1940–1969 and subsequent operation inundated lands indigenous groups...


Foxes and Humans at the Late Holocene Uyak Site, Kodiak, Alaska (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Reuven Yeshurun. Catherine F. West.

This is an abstract from the "Do Good Things Come in Small Packages? Human Behavioral Ecology and Small Game Exploitation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a generalist, omnivorous predator that is often drawn to human environments, exploiting anthropogenic refuse. Foxes may bear little or significant economic importance to prehistoric human foragers, depending on the environmental, economic, and cultural context. Here...


Fruits from the Ancestors: Tsimshian Forest Gardens in the Pacific Northwest (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsey Geralda Armstrong. Christina Sam-Stanley.

The historical ecology of Dałk Gyilakyaw, the ancestral village of the Gitsm’geelm Tsimshian, is a community-based research program that focuses on connecting the past to the present using a heterarchy of ethnographic, ethnobiological, and archaeological methods that are organized from Tsimshian Adawx, worldviews, and community objectives. Traditional resource management and environmental wisdom are explored as a means of investigating the archaeological past in less invasive ways. In this...


Gender Inequality in British Columbia’s Heritage Sector: Results from the British Columbia Association of Professional Archaeologist 2021 Wage Survey (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Elvidge. Megan Harris. Jeff Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study argues that gender equity in archaeology promotes an emotionally, financially, and intellectually supported workforce, which in turn, can strengthen the overall quality of commercial archaeology. In 2021, the British Columbia Association of Professional Archaeologists conducted a survey of heritage professionals to investigate remuneration in...


Generationally-Linked Archaeology: Northwest Coast of North America Example (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Croes. Ed Carriere.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ed Carriere and I have spent the last four years doing what is often called experimental archaeology, replicating 2,000 year old baskets from the Biderbost wet/waterlogged archaeological site east of Seattle, Washington and reporting this in our new book: Re-awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry. After pondering what and why we were doing this, Ed as a...


Geoarchaeological Investigations in the Upper Willamette Valley and Western Cascade Mountains, Oregon (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only JD Lancaster. Teresa Wriston. Molly Casperson. Loren Davis. Jillian Maloney.

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. The rivers of the Upper Willamette Valley and Western Cascades have drawn people to their resource rich banks since the Late Pleistocene with evidence of human habitation variably preserved as the watersheds evolved. Since the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) constructed the Willamette Valley...


Geoarchaeological Prospection for Late Pleistocene Deposits in the Paleo-Tahkenitch River Valley, Oregon Coast (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Newell.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of the paleo-Tahkenitch River valley, situated on the Oregon coast, spans the early to late Holocene. Previous work at the Tahkenitch Landing site (35CS43) has demonstrated human response to postglacial marine transgression, transitioning from an inland river valley to a productive estuary in the early Holocene to a...


Geoarchaeology of Lwalb Old Channel One (45KI815), South Park, Seattle, Washington (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Shari Silverman.

Lwalb Old Channel One, a shell midden, spans both sides of an oxbow within the historic Duwamish River floodplain. The oxbow is buried under the streets of the South Park neighborhood, Seattle, Washington. Also called 45KI815, the site’s shell component is light. Therefore, the midden does not mask contemporaneous geomorphological features of the oxbow and surrounding wetland. Visible soil features include the channel; vegetation effects on soil movement; midden migration; possible liquefaction...


Geoarchaeology of Three Olcott Sites along the Elwha River, Clallam County, Washington (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Stcherbinine.

This is an abstract from the "New Research into the Old Cordilleran" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Olcott sites are characteristically skewed toward lithic artifacts due to the acidic forested environment of western Washington. Site interpretations rely on several lines of evidence including landform type and age, soil formation, post-depositional processes, and vertical artifact distributions. Recent survey and excavations at three Olcott sites...


Geochemical Analysis of Crystalline Volcanic Rock Artifacts from Three Olcott Sites along the Elwha River, Clallam County, Washington (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Furlong.

This is an abstract from the "New Research into the Old Cordilleran" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Raw material sourcing of crystalline volcanic rock (CVR) artifacts through geochemical analysis has a decades long history in Olympic Peninsula archaeological research and is an important aspect of site interpretation. Recent archaeological investigations at three Olcott sites by Archaeological and Historical Services, EWU as a part of Washington...


A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Projectile Point Maintenance using Experimental Resharpening Techniques: An Examination of PFP1 Curation, Cooper's Ferry Site, Idaho (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Skinner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The implementation of controlled experiments to identify and describe the behaviors of the past has been influential in understanding the material evidence left behind in the archaeological record. This in combination with the advent of new 3D scanning technologies and geometric morphometric analysis methods can be used to establish novel approaches to topics...


Geomorphic Framework Development for Willamette Valley Reservoirs to Support Cultural Resources Management (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie Keith. Maxwell Schwid. Laurel Stratton Garvin. Molly Casperson. Rose Wallick.

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. High-head, multipurpose dams and reservoirs constructed in the 1940–1960s in the Willamette Valley encompass a diverse array of landscapes utilized by humans for thousands of years. These reservoirs overlap numerous cultural sites that are subject to dynamic erosion and deposition processes....


A Geospatial Analysis Exploring Movement and Perception in the Selection of Alpine Cairn Locations in Southeast Alaska (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Renner. Ralph Hartley. William Hunt.

In 2013 an intensive archaeological survey of a portion of northern Baranof Island in southeast Alaska, focusing on the slope and crest of Cross Peak Mountain, resulted in the discovery and documentation of fifty loose rock "cairns" estimated to have been constructed 500 – 1500ypb. These prehistoric alpine features, overlooking the intersection of Hoonah Sound and Peril Strait, are often associated with stories and narrative referencing the "Flood" by Tlingit people from both Sitka and Hoonah...