North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Geographic Keyword)
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For the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, care of tribal heritage is an expression of sovereignty, cultural creativity, and connection to place. We discuss three arenas in which the Tribe draws on information about the past to reaffirm connections in the present. First, exhibits at the Chachalu Tribal Museum & Cultural Center, language immersion programs, and artistic pieces showcase how the diverse Native peoples of western Oregon overcame dispossession and removal to...
Community Outreach in Cultural Preservation (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. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Historic Preservation Office places a high priority on education and public outreach. Looking both within our organization and to outside agencies, the Tribe’s Historic Preservation staff places emphasis on addressing past “takings” and harm the discipline of...
Comparison of Circuit and Least Cost Path Modeling for Maritime Peopling of the Americas (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Modeling Mobility across Waterbodies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite much recent scholarship there is still much to learn about the exact method, route, and timing of the Peopling of the New World. Geographic Information System (GIS) based analytical methods provide opportunities to model where and when coastal peopling events could have taken place. I will compare the results of traditional Least Cost Path...
A Comparison of Mesolithic Danish Logboats and Pacific Northwest Canoes (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Background: Pacific Northwest ethnographic information about canoe usage and building techniques can be compared to the many Danish mesolithic logboats currently in the archaeological record. Both maritime cultures created watercraft from single tree trunks. There are no surviving precontact Pacific Northwest canoes, and many Danish mesolithic logboats....
Conflict and Territoriality: An Archaeological Study of Ancestral Northern Coast Salish-Tla’amin Defensiveness in the Salish Sea Region of Southwestern British Columbia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coast Salish ethnohistory describes how various locations associated with settlements were used for defence within the Salish Sea region of southwestern British Columbia. During times of conflict, these linked places formed defensive networks that functioned to maximize defensibility at both the settlement and allied settlement scales....
Conscious Conservation in an Era of Catastrophe (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For nearly two decades, Warm Springs Geo Visions has been a small, independent, tribally-owned firm dedicated to the environmental compliance needs of the Pacific Northwest. Working with a range of federal, state, tribal, and private stakeholders, the company brings a unique set of strengths and perspectives to bear on projects including cultural resource...
Cultural Landscape Studies: Central Washington Yakama Nation Partnerships (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This is our 15th year of formal collaboration between Central Washington University (CWU) Department of Anthropology and the Yakama Nation Cultural Resource programs (YNRP). CWU (Ellensburg) is located in the center of Ceded Lands of the YN and an hour from YN tribal headquarters (Toppenish). Contracts, learning agreements, lecture programs, internships, and...
Dating the Oldest Sites in the Portland Basin (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Portland Basin in Oregon, organic material is rarely preserved, archaeological features are often thoroughly bioturbated, and historic wildfires have introduced abundant charcoal into the soil matrix that is not directly tied to human settlement. Dates must often be estimated without the aid of radiocarbon analysis. This...
Decolonizing the Fort Vancouver School (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 Fort Vancouver School formed part of the colonial project of the Hudson’s Bay Company to “civilize” and assimilate Native Americans and the multiethnic families of fur traders. By 1836, a kitchen behind the Chaplain’s/Priest’s House was used as the schoolhouse. By...
Developing More Holistic Approaches to Cultural Resource Inventories: Results from a Salvage Survey on the Umatilla National Forest, Southeast Washington (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most heritage surveys conducted by Federal agencies in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) focus exclusively on archaeological resources. This approach has resulted in the effective documentation and preservation of archaeological sites but has led to gaps in our understanding of a wide variety of cultural resources. For the last...
Digital Approaches to Willamette Valley Ground Stone Bowls (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. Recent discussions in the Historic Preservation Office of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde have focused on the interpretation of the use-life of decorated ground stone bowls in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon. Historically, these belongings have been looted, sold off, gifted, or...
Dimensions, Links, and Scales in the Behavioral Ecology of Inequality (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human Behavioral Ecology (HBE) initially focused on individual actors optimizing in a single decision category over very short time scales—“Robinson Crusoe rustles up lunch.” Current and future progress in HBE entails several intertwined developments, of which we address three: (a) attending to social dimensions, by drawing on evolutionary social...
Discovery and Survey of Seventeenth-Century Shipwreck Timbers Near Manzanita, Oregon (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 August of 2020, timbers believed to be part of the Spanish Manila galleon shipwreck of the Santa Christo de Burgos were found in a sea cave on the coast of Oregon. The site is exposed only very briefly during extreme negative tides. Access to the sea cave is further complicated by an exposed hike along an eroding cliff face. Due to the...
Does That Belong in a Museum? Conceptualizing Western Oregon Stone Bowls as Potential Funerary Objects (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. Stone bowls are common archaeological objects in Western Oregon, often displayed in museum contexts, yet research into the cultural practices associated with stone bowls has been minimal. Recent community discussions at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde concerning the potential funerary context...
Dominant Narratives and Gender Equality in Northwest Coast Archaeology (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. This paper explores Julie Stein’s work to challenge dominant narratives of precontact culture history of the Northwest Coast using geoarchaeological evidence. We compare feminist archaeology perspectives on standpoint theory and implicit bias in discussing how and why she arrived at a new approach to shell midden site formation...
The Effect of Boats and Watercraft on Archaeological Interpretations of Social/Economic Organization and Population Histories within the Pacific Northwest of North America (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 use or increased use of boats fundamentally alters people’s relationship to their landscape. However, how boats alter this relationship is not always straightforward or consistent. For example, increased use or improvements in boating technologies has been variously argued to...
Efficiently Assessing a Large Collection of “Unidentifiable” Faunal Specimens (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Zooarchaeological Methods" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Highly fragmented assemblages are challenging for zooarchaeologists. Large numbers of morphologically unidentifiable specimens are time consuming to analyze and may yield little information relevant to project goals. Faced with an assemblage of 50,000 unidentifiable specimens from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, I employed an...
The Emerging Picture of Human Occupation at the Cooper's Ferry Site During the Bølling-Allerød Interstadial (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on the Western Stemmed Tradition-Clovis Debate in the Far West" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological excavations conducted from 2009-2018 at the Cooper's Ferry site in west-central Idaho revealed a long record of repeated human occupation encompassing the late Pleistocene to early Holocene periods. Lithostratigraphic unit 3 (LU3) is a loess deposit found near the bottom of the site that...
Enamel Rocks Resulting from Culturally Heating of Quartzite (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Quartzite is a commonly identified material used in the past as heating stones. The quartz minerals in quartzite stones are stable to around 500 degrees Celsius, at which point the quartz mineral experiences a chemical transition or inversion. A second inversion occurs at around 1500 degrees Celsius, causing the morphology to appear similar to tooth enamel....
Engaging Youth in Archaeology and Cultural Resources: Examples from the Kalispel Natural Resources Department (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. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed in-person interactions and typical outreach and educational events. The Kalispel Natural Resources Department and Cultural Resources Program strived to stay engaged in education throughout this difficult time and focused on delivering stand-alone content...
Environmental Effects of Cyclical Reservoir Drawdown on Archaeological Resources: A Preliminary Case Study from Fall Creek Reservoir, Lane County, Oregon (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Willamette Valley Project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) manages 13 reservoirs in northwestern Oregon. The USACE’s flood control mission requires annual water level drawdowns that expose the reservoir bed to cycles of lacustrine deposition, wave-action, and alluvial and colluvial erosion. Previous assessments of the impacts of...
Establishing a Chronology for the Fort Point Site (35CU11) along the Southern Oregon Coast (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Point (35-CU-11) is a pre-contact midden located on a marine terrace overlooking an important natural and historical feature known as Battle Rock along the southern Oregon Coast. Field investigation that took place in 2019 along the main promontory of the site revealed dense midden deposits that provide useful data on subsistence and residential...
An Evaluation of Olcott Biface Production (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning with the introduction of the concept of an Old Cordilleran Culture, research related to early Holocene tool production in northwestern North America appears to assume commonalities of tool production throughout a huge geographic area. This assumption persists despite the recognition of unique cultural traditions, namely Olcott and Cascade....
Evidence for Pleistocene Horse Hunting on the Columbia Plateau from the Rock Island Overlook Site (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent reanalysis of selected artifacts from a 1974 archaeological salvage excavation at the precontact Rock Island Overlook site, 45CH204, in central Washington State indicates that cultural deposits are much older than previously reported. Projectile point chronology and obsidian hydration dating suggest the Rock Island Overlook site...
Evidence for Winter Bear Hunting from Lava Tube Caves in Southwest Washington (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southwestern flanks of Mt. Adams, Washington, contain numerous lava tube caves. These lava tubes can be quite complex, containing narrow passages on multiple levels. In the course of exploring these lava tubes, modern cavers have inadvertently discovered a total of sixteen projectile points and a flake tool, within twelve different lava tubes. These...