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Legacy Collection from a Mid-Columbia River Village Site Reveals Surprising Late Pre-contact Focus on Terrestrial Mammal Hunting and Processing Bone and Stone Items for Use and Export (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carmen Sarjeant. Eva Hulse. Terry Ozbun.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data and collections from the Chiawana Park site, a pre-contact village on the Columbia River in Washington State, were analyzed decades after its original excavation. Archaeological excavations conducted in 1967 produced huge assemblages of animal bones, bone tools, and stone tools. Geoarchaeological, faunal, and technological artifact...