The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The oldest archaeological sites in the Pacific Northwest like Paisley Caves and Cooper’s Ferry get a lot of well-deserved attention. However, there are slightly younger or less studied sites that are underreported in the scientific literature. When viewed together, these lesser-known sites add important details to our understanding of how people lived in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. This symposium brings together recent archaeological research from across the Pacific Northwest to build a richer picture of life during the transition out of the Pleistocene.
Other Keywords
Chronology •
Dating Techniques •
Archaic •
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican •
Lithic Analysis •
Human Behavioral Ecology •
Indigenous Archaeology •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: Residue Analysis •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Pleistocene Horse
Geographic Keywords
North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau
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Beyond Paleoarchaic Lithic Procurement at the Bear Creek Site (2023)
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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. More than 3,600 chipped stone artifacts were recovered from the Bear Creek site in Redmond, Washington, primarily from a context dating to ca. 12,500–10,000 cal BP. Projectile point styles include unfluted lanceolate and Western Stemmed Tradition points. The site was excavated as part of a cultural resources management project in 2009 and...
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Dating the Oldest Sites in the Portland Basin (2023)
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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...
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Evidence for Pleistocene Horse Hunting on the Columbia Plateau from the Rock Island Overlook Site (2023)
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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...
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Reservoir-Corrected Musselshell Dates for the Cascade Phase on the Lower Snake River (2023)
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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. Freshwater mussel shell is common at alluvial sites on the Columbia Plateau, and often used for radiocarbon dating of early and mid-Holocene sedimentary deposits of archaeological or geological interest. Paired radiocarbon ages on freshwater mussel shell and charcoal have shown acceptable agreement at sites on the middle and lower Salmon...