North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic scatters are by far the most common precontact archaeological site in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington. These sites are frequently situated in open, flat areas adjacent to a reliable source of water and are broadly interpreted as being related to the seasonal round of resource gathering practiced by indigenous peoples of...
Going By Boat-Being: An Indigenous Ontological Approach to Human-Boat Relationships on the Pacific Northwest Coast (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Canoes were central to watercraft cultures in subsistence activities, in hauling people and loads, in travel and recreation, and in warfare and ceremonies. However, to many people on the Pacific Northwest Coast, canoes were viewed, understood, and experienced as much more than just...
Green Rush Archaeology: An Overview of Cultural Confirmation and Economic Opportunities (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In November 2016, California passed the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition 64) to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. As a result, local county governments enacted their own county ordinances for Cannabis Legalization. In Humboldt County, in compliance with the Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance (CMMLUO) Cultivation Application...
Healthcare and Citizenship in the Context of World War II Japanese American Internment (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Health, Wellness, and Ability" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During World War II, approximately 120,000 individuals of Japanese heritage were incarcerated by the United States government. One-third of those unjustly incarcerated were legal American citizens. This talk examines the types of medicine and healthcare made available to imprisoned Japanese Americans based on their citizenship status....
High-Resolution Geophysical Characterization of Geology and Acoustic Water Column Signatures in Willamette Valley Reservoirs, Oregon, USA (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. Inland flood-control reservoirs represent a novel analog for studying submerged terrestrial landscapes. The same scale and time-independent processes that impact coastal environments through sea-level changes are also produced through a reservoir’s annual draft and fill cycles. Within these...
The Historical Ecology of Dolphins and Porpoises off the Oregon and Pacific Northwest Coasts: Contributions from Zooarchaeology (2018)
Wide-scale excavations were undertaken in the middens at Seaside, Oregon in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the overwhelming amount of faunal material, much of it remains unanalyzed. This project focuses on the material from the Par-Tee midden (35CLT20). The only cetaceans analyzed from this midden are whales, leaving a knowledge gap about prehistoric human interaction with smaller cetaceans, such as dolphins and porpoises. Using the cetacean comparative and reference collection at the...
Hot Spots: A Proposed Strategy for Reducing the Risk of Wildfire to Cultural Resources (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me: What Have We Learned Over the Past 40 Years and How Do We Address Future Challenges" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change during the 21st century presents a significant challenge to the mandated protection of cultural resources. In interior continental areas such as the Northern Rockies, increased wildfire activity due to longer fire seasons has the potential to damage if not destroy...
Household Cordage in the Ancient Ozette Longhouses, a Mudslide-Covered Village on Northwest Coast of North America (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Cordage, Yarn, and Associated Paraphernalia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rarely can you characterize all the cordage and knots in use within an ancient household. At Ozette Village, three centuries ago, a large mudslide flattened, covered, and preserved large cedar plank long-houses. Thousands of cordage and wood/fiber artifacts were preserved and recovered in situ, in use and stored by the ancient extended...
How Do We Know What We Know? Tales of Rural Outreach (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. In 1999, the Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology kicked off a new public outreach program. Since then, staff members have attended at least 15 annual county fairs, taught students how to dig in a field, cleaned vomit (and other things) off our shoes, led parking lot surveys, thrown atlatls,...
Hunted or Scavenged?: Investigating Acquisition of Dolphins and Porpoises at the Par-Tee Site Using Zooarchaeology and Ancient DNA Identifications (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The large quantity of archaeological cetacean remains recovered from the Par-Tee site allows insight into the potential hunting of smaller cetaceans. Using the Smithsonian’s Department of Vertebrate Zoology Marine Mammal Collection as a comparative, I identified four small cetacean species in the midden: harbor porpoise, Dall’s porpoise, bottlenose dolphin,...
I Am from the Sea, You Are from the Land (2018)
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...
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...
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...