North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Geographic Keyword)
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How does water act as a relational presence when in the field, and how does this relationship inform local Indigenous communities as they look to a future with more authority over their territory and heritage? This paper provides a first look into a Guardian Watchmen program situated on Vancouver Island and explores the ways in which Guardians better understand the social and cultural networks in which they are embedded in both the contemporary world and the places in which the ancestors and...
"I Can Tell It Always": Confronting Colonialist Presumptions and Disciplinary Blind Spots through Community-Based Research (2019)
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. The nineteenth and early twentieth century history of western Oregon is rife with Euro-American presumptions about the trajectory, pace, and nature of Native cultural change. Federal architects of the state’s reservation system and, later, reservation agents wrote extensively about Native peoples’ ability...
Identifying Lithic Technological Strategies at the Late Paleoindian Sentinel Gap Site Using 3D Digital Morphometrics (2018)
The Late Paleoindian Sentinel Gap site, located along the Columbia River in central Washington, provides a unique data set of bifaces and projectile points/knives (pp/ks) from a single occupation episode dating to c. 10,200 radiocarbon years BP. In addition to over 60 partial and complete bifaces and 11 pp/ks recovered during excavations, 15 lithic debris accumulations interpreted as debitage "dumps" were excavated. The refitting of flakes from one of these features revealed the original core...
The Illicit Sale of Human Skeletal Remains in Washington State: Where the Law Stands Now and Insights for Future Protections (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Washington State has one of the most progressive sets of laws in the United States governing jurisdiction and process surrounding the discovery and investigation of human skeletal remains. The law dictates how human skeletal...
Impact of Paleoclimate Variation on the Settlement History of the Columbia-Fraser Plateau through the Use of Summed Radiocarbon Probability Distributions (2021)
This is an abstract from the "People, Climate, and Proxies in Holocene Western North America" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Settlement histories of the Columbia-Fraser Plateau have been compiled through the record of riverine villages of the Columbia and Fraser Rivers and their many tributaries. Columbia-Fraser Plateau chronologies have seldom been revisited in the years since their publications in syntheses of the 1980s–1990s. Our analysis of...
Improving the D Average: Contextualizing Archaeological Assessments of Eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Cultural Resource Management (CRM) reports, pre-contact sites are often listed as potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), only under Criterion D (data potential), while post-contact sites are routinely listed under all four criteria. As a result, sites representing relatively minor activities of European settler...
Incorporating Indigenous Views into Cultural Resource Risk Assessments: A Case Study from Sauvie Island, Oregon (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Threats to cultural resources have pushed archaeologists, land managers, and Indigenous peoples to identify at-risk resources, determine their condition, and provide prioritization recommendations for future preservation. Our project is an example of this process in the form of a case study in cultural resources risk assessment, along the 34 km long...
An Industry-Focused Approach to Piling Recordation along the Shorelines of Grays Harbor County (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following non-native settlement in Grays Harbor County, Washington on the Pacific coast, the Harbor and adjacent rivers became integral to the growth and prosperity of the region’s growing timber-focused economy during the early-twentieth century. Native shorelines were transformed as piling-supported trestles, log booms, timber mills, and commercial...
Inferring Continuity and Growth from Household Expansion at the Xwisten Bridge River Site in British Columbia (2018)
The processes that drive socioeconomic and demographic growth over the course of generational occupations can be better understood by examining the variation in spatial organization at the household level. This study draws from the ethnographic record, ethnoarchaeological studies, and household archaeology to compare features from Housepit 54 at the Xwisten village, or Bridge River site in the interior of British Columbia. This site has been previously classified as a winter village and...
The Inland Life of Southeast Alaska (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The focus of archaeological research in Southeast Alaska has long been on coastal sites. Over the past decade new inland sites have been recorded on Prince of Wales Island, including the first early Holocene lakeshore site. Waterfalls presenting natural fish barriers to migrating salmon also preserve evidence of Holocene human activity far removed from early...
Insights into Rock Art Pigment Provenance and Microenvironment at Ashlu Rockshelter, British Columbia, Canada (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Advances in microanalytical methodologies enable archaeologists to examine characteristics of rock art pigment and surrounding microenvironment to nanoscale resolution. The information gleaned through microanalysis is valuable for reconstructing archaeopigment preparation technologies and provenance, and to evaluate the condition and stability of rock art...
Introducing the HJCCC: A Digital Collection of Japanese Ceramics Recovered from Archaeological Sites in the American West (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In an increasingly digital world, digital archaeological collections have established themselves as important tools for artifact identification, comparative and collaborative undertakings, and information dissemination. This poster introduces the Historical Japanese Ceramic Comparative Collection (HJCCC), the first digital collection to focus on Japanese...
Investigating the Nature and Timing of the Earliest Human Occupation of North America Using a Lipid Biomarker Approach (2018)
Coprolites contain a suite of lipid biomolecules and are an invaluable source of palaeobiological and palaeoecological information. The identification of faecal matter through the presence of highly-specific lipid biomarkers (5β-stanols and bile acids) has been used to identify and characterise faecal input from a range of different sources. Differentiation of these faecal markers is enabled through the diet, digestion and metabolism of the source animal. Lipid analysis of coprolites has also...
Investigating the Principles of “Good Farming”: A Comparison of Traditional Agrarianism and Indigenous Land Use and Cultivation (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In his long career as an agrarian writer, Wendell Berry has documented and endorsed the precepts of “good farming” as those that require care, knowledge, self-mastery, good sense, cultural memory, and fundamental decency. This carefully crafted set of practices stands in stark opposition to the aggressive colonial...
Is the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site Anthropogenic? (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Wenas Creek Mammoth Site was excavated 2005-2010 near Selah, Washington, USA, yielding bones of mammoth and bison dating ~17 ka, and two lithics resembling chipped stone debitage. Prior publications have reported on some aspects of the project and this poster summarizes those as well as subsequent analyses. The bones were disarticulated and scattered...
It’s All About Context: How Culturally Informed Landscape Understandings Expand Knowledge of Archaeological Site Interpretation (2023)
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. Tribal Cultural Landscapes are intimate and comprehensive understandings of place rooted in the ecologies, histories, and practices of those communities who create them. For the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (CTGR), these include all lands between the Cascade and Coast Mountain Ranges of...
Language as a Cultural Resource: A Case Study with the Tolowa and Hupa Languages (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through past and current language and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) policies, this study aims to include revitalization efforts in indigenous communities, technology as a factor in protecting and spreading a language, and the state of diversity within Athabaskan languages. The Athabaskan language family contains indigenous languages with long histories...
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Stone Tool Technologies from the Pacific Coast of Canada (2023)
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...
A Late Pleistocene Snapshot: Feature 134 at Cooper's Ferry (Nipéhe), Idaho (2021)
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...
Legacy Collection from a Mid-Columbia River Village Site Reveals Surprising Late Pre-contact Focus on Terrestrial Mammal Hunting and Processing Bone and Stone Items for Use and Export (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data and collections from the Chiawana Park site, a pre-contact village on the Columbia River in Washington State, were analyzed decades after its original excavation. Archaeological excavations conducted in 1967 produced huge assemblages of animal bones, bone tools, and stone tools. Geoarchaeological, faunal, and technological artifact...
Leukoma Seasonality and Maturity at WH-55, Implications for the Lacarno Beach Phase in the Pacific Northwest (2018)
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...
Lidar Predictive Modeling of Kalapuya Mound Sites in the Calapooia Watershed, Oregon (2023)
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...
Lithic Technological Organization at Three Olcott Sites along the Elwha River, Clallam County, Washington (2019)
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...
Lithic Technologies and Faunal Remains From a Terminal Pleistocene Pit Feature at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho (2023)
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...
Lithics and the Late Prehistoric: Networks and Interaction on the Southeastern Columbia Plateau (2018)
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...