North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Dangerfield.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the establishment of the Bureau of Reclamation in 1902, the federal government endeavored to reclaim the arid American West and support historic European settler’s homesteading efforts through large scale irrigation infrastructure construction that provided a reliable water supply...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Bowen.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reclamation constructed Navajo Dam from 1958 to 1961, creating Navajo Reservoir. Consequently, Pueblo I habitations that were formerly lining river corridors became archaeological sites situated on the 159 miles of reservoir shoreline. This paper examines current actions involved with managing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Walsh.

This is an abstract from the "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Building on previous research on the cultural transmission of material culture between generations at Housepit 54 (Prentiss et al. 2016; 2020a), this poster presents ongoing research exploring the possible transmission trajectories of lithic technologies across activity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tumwata Village, located at Oregon City, Oregon, holds a complex archaeological record of thousands of years of Indigenous lifeways, overlain by nineteenth-century settler and commercial expansion, and twentieth-century industrial domination. The resulting complexity presents a challenge for archaeologists attempting to understand both this complicated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Cannon.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After nearly six decades of American compliance archaeology, archaeologists have developed a robust toolset for addressing historic preservation, including documentation through archival research, archaeological excavation, ethnography, and National Register of Historical Places nominations....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jyl Wheaton-Abraham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho has called the northern Idaho panhandle home since time immemorial. Two hundred years of colonization reduced the Tribe to 64 members by the 1970’s, and the Tribe is actively working to recover from the loss of lands, culture, and people. This effort includes collaborating with state agencies in the management of cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Noll.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Olcott Phase is recognized in archaeological deposits by a relatively small variety of tool types, with the leaf-shaped “Olcott” point being among the most recognizable. Other key attributes of the Olcott toolkit include heavily relying on local toolstone and lithic reduction techniques emphasizing durability and flexibility. Unidirectional,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Nohren.

This is an abstract from the "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study investigates the variable relationships between people and domestic dogs over time within Housepit 54 at the Bridge River site, British Columbia. While viewing domestication as an ongoing social process, this research aims to demonstrate how the roles of dogs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Lubinski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We have created a database of faunal assemblages from the eastern half of Washington state, compiled from reports through ~2023, with taxonomic identifications, age estimates, and locations. So far there are 482 archaeological assemblages with reported genus or species NISP, from 329 discrete sites, with a total of 66,502 NISP. Some 298 assemblages have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Fox.

This is an abstract from the "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fishing was an essential element of the subsistence regimes practiced by Indigenous human groups of North America’s Pacific Northwest region. This poster overviews research into the use of ancient DNA (aDNA) to identify Pacific salmonid species pursued by occupants...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley O'Brien.

This is an abstract from the "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bridge River site (K’etxelkná’z) is a winter pithouse village located in the Mid-Fraser Canyon of south-central British Columbia near the confluence of the Bridge and Fraser Rivers. Extensive excavations in Housepit 54 have uncovered a sequence of 17 occupation floors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Jack.

This is an abstract from the "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster compares observed species from the archaeobotanical record of Housepit 54 and a modern botanical survey conducted around the Bridge River Village. Archaeological data has been compiled from seed identification efforts from 15 floors in Housepit 54, completed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous place theories are developing “gaps analyses” of archaeological and historical datasets caused by the social contexts in which existing dominant culture narratives have been written. Methodologies for researching stories of marginalized communities are less well established. We present a decolonizing approach to history implemented/utilized by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historical Research Associates, Inc. has been conducting large-scale cultural resource investigations in support of the Bureau of Reclamation’s (BOR) American Falls Resource Management Plan (RMP) Cultural Resources Update Project near American Falls, Idaho. This project includes cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Rilk.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Bureau of Reclamation’s most recent effort to document the more than one thousand rock art elements at the Watson Petroglyph Site in Malheur County, Oregon, evidence of an unexpected cultural practice was identified. Deposited in the cracks and placed under spalls of some of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Prentiss.

This is an abstract from the "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Housepit 54 project at the Bridge River site (k’etxelknáz), located in the western Interior of southern British Columbia, is designed to address questions concerning the experiences of families occupying a long-lived house. Fifteen intact anthropogenic floors dated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Erlick.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 10 years, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Provo Area Office, along with the Utah and Wyoming State Historic Preservation Offices, have developed programmatic agreements (PAs) as an alternative form of compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Harris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chenopodium, commonly known as goosefoot, is a genus of perennial and annual herbaceous plants. This genus is an abundant seed recovered from paleoethnobotanical assemblages in the Fraser and Columbia Plateaus of North America. While prevalent in the paleobotanical record, they are often discounted as incidental environmental inclusions. A growing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flannery Surette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, occupies a geographic and cultural space between the Fraser Plateau to the northwest and the Columbia Plateau to the south. Prior research indicates that the Okanagan was a pre-contact corridor between these culture areas allowing for the movement of people and ideas. Lithic raw material sourcing studies in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Schneider.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) is a large-scale project that when complete, will provide water to the eastern section of the Navajo Nation, southwestern portion of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, and the city of Gallup, New Mexico. The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyler Conrad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In March 1943, when construction began on what became known as the “Hanford Site” as part of the Manhattan Project in southeastern Washington state, the U.S. Government appropriated lands that were being actively farmed by orchardists growing apples and other tree fruit for over 40 years. Located immediately adjacent to the Columbia River, orchardists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Denis.

This is an abstract from the "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research provides an overview of the process of parenchymatous tissue identification as well as what plant tissues have likely been recovered from excavations at Housepit 54 thus far. Soil samples have been collected from previous field seasons from 15 floors, then...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shell midden sites on the Salish Sea record the history of Coast Salish shellfish harvesting and can contain objects and features associated with seasonal camping and long-term residence. These places represent patterns of Coast Salish prehistory/history (Criterion A of the National Register of Historic Places), provide important archaeological data on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Villeneuve.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Keatley Creek is one of the largest pithouse village sites in Western North America. For nearly four decades, it has featured in debates about the origins of complexity and inequality on the Plateau and among complex hunter-gatherers, in debates on prehistoric rituals, and in debates about methodologies and dating. Critical in all these issues is the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Nelson.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bureau of Reclamation was charged with “reclaiming the West” from its arid condition. As the organization tasked with water management, Reclamation constructed thousands of miles of canals, stretched like arteries across the arid landscape. At each center lies a dam. Dams are engineering...