North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous communities often lack financial resources, technical skill sets, and expertise in regulatory processes to identify, document, protect, and enhance their cultural patrimony. Well-trained archaeologists are competent in a wide range of skills needed to collaborate and work with...
Using Historic Maps to Locate Trails and Understand Trail Building Practices on the Willamette National Forest, Detroit Ranger District (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 1930s and 40s, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) crews built many fire lookout towers and trails on the Willamette National Forest and across the nation. Some of these structures and trails still exist today, but others have been lost to time. Digitizing historic trails from old maps may help cultural resource crews to relocate and protect them....
Using ZooMS to Evaluate Targeted Species Harvest of Pacific Salmon (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Stability and Resilience in Zooarchaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In a large estuary off the central coast of eastern Vancouver Island lies a series of fish trap complexes, which were used for catching herring and salmon in the past. Nearby, the large Pentlatch Village site contains the zooarchaeological remains of these harvests and provides an opportunity for researchers to obtain species-level...
Variation in Household Kitchen Activities at Housepit 54, British Columbia: Reflections on Jeanne Arnold’s Legacy (2024)
This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jeanne Arnold left us with a legacy of archaeological research into households, social change, and technological variation in the various contexts across the North American west coast. Her work was always characterized by attention to multiple sources of...
A View to Wilderness – The Salmo Lookout Tower and the Salmo-Priest Wilderness Area (2018)
The Salmo-Priest Wilderness Area is a 41,335-acre wilderness area in the Selkirk Mountains, in northeast Washington. The wilderness area is within the Colville and Kaniksu National Forests. The area is noted for providing habitat for a number of threatened or endangered species including woodland caribou, grizzly bears, and grey wolves. Access to the area is limited to a few trails and visitation to the area is low. The Colville National Forest offers an alternative way to enjoy this wilderness...
Washington Women’s Homesteading, 1862–1949: Developing a Historic Context of Women’s Homesteading Experiences (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Homestead Act of 1862 enabled feme sole—women who were legally single, widowed, divorced, or deserted—to claim up to 160 acres of land. In Washington State 8.5 million acres (20%) of lands were claimed through the Homestead Act; and although feme sole were a minority of these homesteaders, their homesteading experiences illustrate important themes of...
We Can Brew It! Rethinking the Demographics of Early Oregon Breweries (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Largely assumed to consist of a male-dominated workforce and clientele, many early Oregon breweries were actually family affairs. The Eagle Brewery and Saloon, one of the first breweries in Oregon, was run by German immigrants Joseph and Fredericka Wetterer. They sold lager beer, distilled whisky and brandy, and had a small vineyard on their property. Upon...
We know that our people have been part of this land since the beginning of time -- A Cultural Statement for the Ancient One (2018)
The assumption was made that because the Ancient One was so old, and because the court deemed him not "Native American", the Claimant Tribes had no connection to him, and, therefore, no concern for him. Those assumptions were proven to be incorrect. Evidence demonstrating the Cultural Affiliation of the Ancient One to the Claimant Tribes can be found within the disciplines of indigenous knowledge, geography, biology, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, folklore, oral tradition, and...
“We Used to Always Burn That”: Anthropogenic Fire Regimes and Cultural Resilience at túl’mǝn’ (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On September 7, 2020, the Cold Springs Fire ignited on the Colville Indian Reservation during a significant wind event, with flames racing southward 50 miles overnight, crossing the Columbia River and igniting the Pearl Hill Fire. These fires eventually charred a combined 413,673 acres, including some of the last vestiges of Washington’s fragile...
What Ancient DNA Can Reveal about the Ubiquitous Fish of the Northwest Coast: Salmon, Herring, and Rockfish (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fisheries are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America today and in the past. This presentation summarizes what ancient DNA has revealed/is revealing about Indigenous use of salmon, herring, and rockfish from different archaeological contexts along the Northwest Coast. In the...
What's Cooking at Devils Kitchen? Context, Content, and Chronology of an Early Site on the Modern Oregon Coast (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preliminary geoarchaeological investigations at the Devils Kitchen site (35CS9) produced a stratified archaeological record comprised of stone tools, debitage, and fire-cracked rock associated with alluvial deposition occurring between ~11,600 and 1900 14C BP (i.e., ~13,470 and 1800 cal BP). The robust Holocene-age portion of this record demonstrates that...
What's In A Seed?: An Experimental Archaeological Study of Elderberry (Sambucas sp.) Processing on the Pacific Northwest Coast (2018)
Uncharred botanicals are commonly found on archaeological sites but seldom assigned interpretive significance owing to their assumed ambiguous origins. Thousands of uncharred, fragmented Sambucas racemosa (red elderberry) seeds have been recovered at Welqámex, a Stó:lō-Coast Salish settlement in the Upper Fraser Valley of southwestern British Columbia. In Stó:lō-Coast Salish territory and beyond, Sambucas was used as both a food and a medicine. Owing to the presence of cyanide-like...
What's It Alder About? Paleobotanical and Zooarchaeological Analysis of Feasting Remains from the DgRv-006 Village, Galiano Island, SW British Columbia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of feasting activity in precontact societies can illuminate hierarchical social structures that existed within a community, because of the labor and wealth investments required to produce a successful feast. It can also highlight the integrative aspects of feasts, since they often involved widespread participation. We present results of...
When Good Projects Go Well: A Partnered Project in Southern Oregon between the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, a Private Land Owner, and Associated Federal Agencies (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When a private landowner consistently finds artifacts on their property and wants to be open to outside research opportunities, it can be difficult to find the funds necessary for a thorough cultural resource inventory when there is no development project associated. Encouraging education as a tool to promote advocates for the cultural resources, developing...
Where Did the Fish Go? Use of Archaeological Salmonid Remains to Guide Recovery Efforts in the American West (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Given the scale of habitat loss from development associated with the Industrial Age, archaeological faunas pre-dating the modern era often represent animal populations extirpated from their former ranges. For example, anadromous salmonid populations in the Pacific Northwest of North America have become extirpated from much of their range in the past...
Where Have All the Red Elderberries Gone? A Collaborative Macrobotanical Analysis of Settler-Colonial Impacts on a Vital Coast Salish First Food (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2019, Willamette Cultural Resources Associates identified a diffuse and deeply buried archaeological site on the Green River, south of Seattle, Washington during construction monitoring of a large levee replacement project. The site is in close proximity to ćabćabtac, or “red elderberry place.” Macrobotanical analysis indicates that the site was used...
White Hot Polymorphs of Quartz Minerals in Archaeological and Experimental Heating Contexts (2023)
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. The potential range of behaviors represented in heating stone assemblages is enormous. This paper is an attempt to identify targets for hot rock sampling and analyses that can develop our understanding of ancient global technologies in a day-to-day context. Hot rocks are ubiquitous in archaeological assemblages, yet the...
Willamette Valley Project Overview: Using Subbottom Profiling, Coring, Augering, Geomorphic Mapping, and Regional Archaeological Data to Inform Sensitivity Modeling and Archaeological Research Design in the Willamette Basin, Oregon (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) manages the Willamette Valley Project, a system of thirteen dams and associated reservoirs in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon. Environmental settings of these thirteen project areas vary by elevation, substrate, vegetation, and other characteristics, but all are located along major rivers draining into the...
Willamette Valley Project: Recreating the Landscape of the Willamette Valley through GIS Mapping of Historic Documents (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Willamette Valley Projects (WVP) has been partnering with Colorado State University Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) to create a GIS database of historic properties on the WVP lands, which include the Willamette River Basin 13 dams and their associated lakes or reservoirs. Existing USACE documentation exists from all phases of...
William J. Folan's Canadian Contributions to Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Session in Memory of William J. Folan: Cities, Settlement, and Climate" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although most recognize William Folan’s contributions to Mayan archaeology, his early career was devoted to significant national heritage projects in Canada. From 1965 to 1972, Willie carried out two unprecedented large archaeological projects for Parks Canada. It was a ground-breaking time in Canadian archaeology,...
Word Path: Connecting People to the Landscape and Traditional Indigenous Land Use through Language Preservation: A Collaborative Journey between the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and the Colville National Forest (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. This presentation will discuss the Colville National Forest Heritage Program’s collaboration with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians Language School on the reimagining of the Pioneer Park Heritage Interpretive Trail. The trail was constructed in the mid-1990s as mitigation for construction of a forest...
x̌ʷiq̓ʷix̌ʷalqʷuʔ - Coast Salish Community-Based Participatory Archaeology in Practice (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The x̌ʷiq̓ʷix̌ʷalqʷuʔ project is a partnership between the Stillaguamish Tribe Cultural Resources Department and the Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University designed to reorient archaeological practice to address the concerns of Indigenous communities. Implementing a community-based participatory framework, the program seeks to decenter...
Zelia Nuttall and Drake's Dream (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1886 Zelia Nuttall began work at the Peabody Museum for Ethnology and Archaeology under the tutelage of Frederic Putnam. Nuttall became a specialist in precolumbian Mesoamerican cultures and conducted archaeological fieldwork in Mexico for the Peabody, where she was “Honorary...
Zooarchaeological Evidence for Early Human Subsistence Patterns During the Precontact Occupation of Amalik Bay, Alaska (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Limited research has been done concerning the zooarchaeological evidence for specific subsistence patterns of Amalik Bay, Alaska. Excavation and survey of the Amalik Bay, Alaska, conducted in 2008, 2021, and 2022 recovered faunal remains associated with cultural materials from sites XMK-00020, XMK-00028, and XMK-00001 thought to have origins in the Takli...