North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Geographic Keyword)
201-225 (241 Records)
This is an abstract from the "Kin, Clan, and House: Social Relatedness in the Archaeology of North American Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper focuses on understanding how lineage-based and clan-based connections structured labor patterns and access to prestige/power within a multi-generational housepit (HP54) over time. The Bridge River site (EeRl4), located in the Mid-Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, Canada, was generally...
Sovereignty, Colonialism, and Collaboration: Reflections on Archaeological and Ethnographic Work on the Lower Columbia River (2018)
Over the course of the last two decades I have been actively involved in anthropological research along the Lower Columbia River. This includes archaeological field work conducted within and just outside of the boundaries of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington, as well as a heritage ethnography completed in collaboration with the Chinook Indian Nation. This research has happened on both federal and private lands and has involved multiple "stakeholders," including both federally...
Spaces of Control: Medical Practices within the US Army (1890–1950) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using Giddens’s agency theory, this research explores self-care and institutional care practices in the US Army. This project examines medical and personal care items discarded by US soldiers from Bldg. 104 of the San Francisco Presidio from 1890 to 1950. Artifacts include items such as bottles (e.g. alcohol, medicine, and soda), razors, toothpaste, floss,...
Spatial Identification and Characterization of Native American Pithouse Villages along the Salmon River and Its Tributaries Utilizing Multi-Method Geophysical and Geochemical Survey (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the Salmon-Challis National Forest has focused on a multi-year campaign of geophysical and geochemical surveys. This work has employed a suite of techniques to develop a better understanding of prehistoric social organization and a comparative spatial study of early village sites along the Salmon River and...
Stability and Change in the Construction of Place: Juxtaposing Practices on the Pacific Northwest Coast with the US Southwest (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwestern precontact history appears written in migrations and dramatic shifts in settlement patterns and identity over the last two millennia. Recent data from the Northwest Coast of North America, in contrast, suggest people may have been situated in specific places and...
State Agency Public Outreach in the Age of COVID (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. Information dissemination in cultural resources during the Age of COVID has been facilitated by the rapid growth of online meetings and conferences. In-person-only conferences are going the way of the dinosaur and hybrid forms of meetings/conferences are the future, and the future is now. A hybrid...
Stealth Archaeology: Making the Case for Relevance in Idaho (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the unacknowledged challenges of decolonizing archaeology is recognizing the external political realities in which some professionals work. Working in a state that has explicitly expressed skepticism about the suitability of anthropology as an appropriate field of...
Storied Landscapes and Cultural Resource identification on Oregon’s Paleocoastline (2018)
The significance of cultural resources along Oregon’s dynamic coast continues to have a stronger presence and recognition in landscape management. As future projects look to develop off Oregon’s coast, there is a need for predictive modeling and analysis of cultural resources in a landscape that today is submerged. Paleolandscapes having high potential for a variety of cultural resources are identified using isostatic rebound adjustments and bathometric data. One such landform is off-shore of...
Subsistence Practice as Remote Sensing on the 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. The underwater landscape of the Northwest Coast is largely concealed from direct perception by human senses. Except in a literally shallow and transient way, humans cannot visit this hidden environment. The intertidal, surficial and nearshore resources were, of course, known in superb...
A Synchronic Perspective of Early Holocene Occupation at the Cooper’s Ferry Site in Western 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. The Cooper’s Ferry Site (10IH73) in western Idaho provides a unique synchronic perspective into the lives of the Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) people in the late Pleistocene/early Holocene period. Pit cache features previously excavated at the site provide key information and reliable dates to inform the understanding of the lifeways of...
Technology Compilation in View (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Technologies have advanced over the past couple of decades to the point of making it is possible, and economical, to produce high quality 3D-models of archaeological objects and features, even in remote field locations, using photogrammetry and 3D scanning apps. The Historic Preservation Office of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde has utilized such...
Terrestrial Survey for the Beeswax Wreck of the Oregon Coast (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. The recent discovery and subsequent recovery of ship timbers believed to belong to the Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos present new opportunities for archaeological survey on the Oregon coastline. The Maritime Archaeological Society, along with Oregon State Parks, has plans to conduct survey and phase one testing in areas surrounding...
Theoretical Frameworks for Modelling Late-Pleistocene Costal Migration into the New World (2018)
Spatial modeling of early prehistoric maritime movement on the Pacific Northwest Coast is important in contemporary archaeology because it can help locate new sites in a landscape which has radically changed over the last 20,000 years. Here we present the theoretical framework used in a research project which modeled maritime movement using least cost path analysis (LCP) to determine the routes most likely to have been traveled by the inhabitants of the Dundas Islands, British Columbia over the...
Tobacco Smoking in Northwestern North America: Synthesizing the Results of Organic Chemical Residue Analyses (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The past several years have seen a number of studies—largely based at Washington State University—incorporating organic chemical residue analytical methods to address questions regarding past smoking practices in Northwest North America. In this poster we summarize the results of these studies, which cover a geographic range from northern California to...
The Trade Bead Assemblage from the Chinook Middle Village at the Station Camp Site: Western Terminus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Pacific County, Washington (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Glass Beads and Ornaments in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses a trade bead assemblage excavated from the Chinook Middle Village at the Station Camp/McGowan Site (45PC106), a location that can be considered the western terminus of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803–1806. The camp was situated at the likely site of a seasonally occupied Chinook...
Trails, Trees, and Transmission Lines – A Holistic Cultural Resource Study Involving the Jocko Wilderness Area (2018)
The Jocko Wilderness Area is located in the southest corner of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. In 2015 a cultural resource study involving the Jocko Wilderness Area was initiated to assess the past, current, and future effects of an existing NorthWestern Energy electrical transmission line that was constructed in 1964. This study, undertaken by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Preservation Office, integrated multiple avenues of research including historical records...
Training Students: Collaboration across the Academic Divide (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A familiar refrain among archaeologists working outside of academia is the myriad of training shortcomings in higher education anthropology programs. There is no doubt that there is room for improvement within the academy. However, there is also room for CRM, state, and federal archaeologists to collaborate in training students more...
Tribal Agency and Federal Hegemony: NAGPRA in Action (2018)
Our knowledge and traditions tell us that the Ancient One is our Ancestor. We have requested repatriation for nearly twenty years only to be blocked at every turn. The final judgment made at the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit placed the Claimant Tribes in the status of "interested party" in the minds of the federal agency. This is the hegemonic framework the tribes found themselves in when the US Army of Engineers made the official determination that the Ancient One is Native...
The Tricky Business of Dating Shell Middens and Improving Regional Chronologies (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. Fifteen years ago, Julie Stein spearheaded research into the often problematic task of dating shell middens and interpreting their accumulation. By examining paired charcoal-shell dates from the San Juan Islands, Stein and colleagues refined the local marine reservoir correction (ΔR) associated with radiocarbon-dated shell,...
Tryon Creek (35-WA-288) Projectile Point/Base Comparisons through Strata/Levels (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research was conducted based on artifacts in the Tryon Creek (35-WA-288) collection. It began as a study of intact projectile points (n=126) found within House 2. This enabled comparisons of points based on width, length, thickness, and base type. Material types were analyzed. The research was then expanded to include lithic artifacts that were intact...
Two Millennia of Resilience: The Old Town Bandon Site on the Oregon Coast (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Town Bandon site is a large archaeological site on the Oregon Coast that lies beneath the sidewalks of a settler community. The site has been the subject of over 30 years of archaeological research guided by the Coquille Indian Tribe. This work has revealed the...
The Underwater Search for the Remains of the Spanish Manila Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos (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. This paper covers the underwater remote sensing and diver search for the remains of the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos, also known as the Beeswax Wreck, off the Oregon coast. The all-volunteer Maritime Archaeological Society has conducted a multiyear remote sensing survey and diving expeditions to search the area near the...
Updating the Late Pleistocene Record of the Willamette Valley, 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. Near the end of the Pleistocene, 35 genera of mostly large mammals became extinct in North America, yet the cause of these extinctions remains debated. The Willamette Valley in western Oregon boasts a robust record of up to nine megafaunal taxa (*Mammuthus, Mammut, Equus, Paramylodon, Megalonyx,...
Use of Faunal Analysis to Examine Seismic Disturbance at 45WH10 in Birch Bay, Washington (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Faunal analysis and taphonomic observations of marine invertebrates in a legacy collection from 45WH10 in Birch Bay, Washington, demonstrated a shift in taxonomic abundance that we hypothesize may be indicative of seismic activity such as an earthquake-induced tsunami. Samples from three units showed a significant shift in the abundance of Nucella...
Using Archaeological Training to Help Tribal Communities (2019)
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...