North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Geographic Keyword)
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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...
Looking for the Golden Hind's Landfall (2023)
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...
Making Voices Heard: Archaeology as Community Engagement (2019)
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...
Managing Multiple Heritages: A Case Study of the Ohanapecosh Area, Mount Rainier National Park (2023)
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...
Mission to Survive: Catholic Education, Childhood, and Community on the Grand Ronde Reservation (2019)
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....
Multi-Method Geophysics in the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho (2018)
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...
Museums Are Repositories of Knowledge: Using Museum Collections to Recontextualize Culture Contact and Colonial Entanglements in the Pacific Northwest (2021)
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...
“Mutton” and the Paleogenomics of Coast Salish Woolly Dogs (2023)
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...
Navigating Archaeological Research and Collections at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (2021)
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...
A Needed Audit in Perspective around Culturally Modified Trees within the Pacific Northwest (2023)
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,...
New Caches from Area B at the Cooper’s Ferry Site, Idaho, Reveal Key Technological Insights and Extend the Age of Stemmed Points in the Americas (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. 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...
New insights from old collections: Investigating bird bones from Pacific Northwest shell middens (2019)
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...
No Knapping in the Shelter: Lithic Analysis from the Chuchuwayha Rock Shelter, Similkameen Valley, British Columbia (2023)
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...
Obsidian Procurement Patterns in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness (2018)
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...
Of Elderberries and Alder: Collaborations on the Paleoethnobotany of the Pacific Northwest (2023)
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....
On Making Kw’ets’tel and Interpreting the Remnants: An Archaeological and Experimental Archaeological Study of Stó:lō - Coast Salish Slate Fishing Knives (2019)
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...
On Our Honor: Exploring Washington State’s Historical Use of Honor Camps in the Yacolt State Forest (2023)
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...
On the Rez, It's All Our History (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. 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...
On Using Archaeology within an Indigenous Rights-Based Approach to Sustainability (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Advancing Public Perceptions of Sustainability through Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the U.S., indigenous communities often suffer poor health at far greater rates than non-native populations. Lower life expectancy and the disproportionate disease burden exist often because their local food diversity and sources have been diminished by restricted access and economic stresses. To remedy these health...
Origin of Northwest Coast Microblade Tradition: Insights from Shuká Káa Cave (SKKC) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Two hypotheses for the origins of the Northwest Coast Microblade tradition (NWCMt) predominate: (1) it derives from the first human dispersal to the NWC from interior eastern Beringia; (2) it results from westward movement to the coast from interior regions of British Columbia (BC), Canada. The oldest NWCMt radiocarbon date from...
The Original Cultural Resource Managers of America: Going Beyond Integrating Native Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management (2018)
The perspectives of Native Americans within the field of archaeology can no longer be tossed aside. Native Americans have placed special cultural significance on archaeological resources long before 1492. The relationship between Archaeology and Native Americans is well-known to be a tumultuous one. The integration of Native American perspectives on the management of resources significant to tribes has been a continuum of paternalism and racial segregation. Archaeologists are in a rare position...
The Osceola Mudflow: Dropping into the Valley and Standing Up Next to the Mountain in Southern Puget Sound (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the Northwest Coast of North America cultural processes are intertwined with the natural environment. Five thousand six hundred years ago, a collapse on the northeast slope of Mount təqʷuʔməʔ [Rainier] caused the massive Osceola Mudflow (OM) event and transformed the landscape. In Lushootseed teachings, the Changer genre of stories distinguishes...
Osteobiography of an ancient ‘woolly’ dog from Tseshaht territory on western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Dogs in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The wool dog is a precontact breed of domesticated dog that has held specific cultural importance within Indigenous communities on the coast of British Columbia and Washington for thousands of years. Although wool dogs no longer persist as a distinct breed on the Northwest Coast, information about these dogs is retained in ethnohistorical records and...
Outreach and Education: Examples from a Federal Agency (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a federal agency, public outreach and education take many forms at the Bonneville Power Administration. Identifying and implementing effective mitigation requires meaningful and collaborative engagement with members of the public and consulting parties. Looking internally at our own workforce,...
Overview of Excavations at Three Olcott Sites in Western Washington, USA (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at three precontact sites adjacent to the Elwha River in western Washington State, USA, recovered about 800 bone specimens and 40,000 chipped stone artifacts. The combined artifact assemblage is characteristic of Olcott-type sites in western Washington, most notably the presence of lanceolate projectile points manufactured from fine-grained...