Archaeology from Western North America

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 "Archaeology from Western North America" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Western North America is a geographically diverse region with an equally rich precontact record of indigenous cultures. This session is intended to provide a general geographically themed forum for the discussion of recent archaeological research.

Other Keywords
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Lithic Analysis • Western Stemmed Tradition • Material Culture and Technology • Geoarchaeology • Coastal and Island Archaeology  • Cultural Resource Management • Cultural Transmission • Early Holocene • Faunal Analysis

Geographic Keywords
North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau • Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Utah (State / Territory) • Nevada (State / Territory) • California (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • North America: California and Great Basin

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  • Analysis of Western Stemmed Tradition Stone Tool Patterns and Faunal Remains from Pit Feature 95 at the Cooper’s Ferry Site (10IH73), Idaho (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle McPherson.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations at the Cooper’s Ferry site (10IH73) reveal unique insights about the Western Stemmed Tradition (WST). Previous studies at the site presented information on WST pit cache features; here specifically, I present a study of Feature 95 (F95), which provides an archaeological snapshot of site occupation at ~9679 ± 33 BP (11,190–11,093 cal...

  • Assessing the Potential for a Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene Occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site (35DO130), Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Kirkpatrick.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While archaeologists hypothesize that early peoples initially migrated into the Americas along the Pacific coast, environmental changes associated with postglacial sea-level rise may have destroyed or obscured such early sites. In coastal areas currently above sea level, early sites are difficult to find due to terrestrial processes of landscape...

  • Bye Bye Bye: Vanishing Shorelines and Cultural Resource Management along the Oregon Coast (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacy Scott.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 100 years the coastline of Oregon has undergone a dramatic change as Euro-American settlement has forever altered the natural shoreline. Significant changes include placement of rip rap and forced stabilization of naturally shifting dunes. Urban development has resulted in changes to natural movement and deposition of sediments and...

  • Geoarchaeological Prospection for Late Pleistocene Deposits in the Paleo-Tahkenitch River Valley, Oregon Coast (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Newell.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of the paleo-Tahkenitch River valley, situated on the Oregon coast, spans the early to late Holocene. Previous work at the Tahkenitch Landing site (35CS43) has demonstrated human response to postglacial marine transgression, transitioning from an inland river valley to a productive estuary in the early Holocene to a...

  • Lithic Technologies and Faunal Remains From a Terminal Pleistocene Pit Feature at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Paulson.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A new study at the Cooper’s Ferry site (10IH73) located in west central Idaho focuses on the contents of pit feature 110 of Area B. Feature 110 (F110) has been dated between ~9938 ± 36 BP (11,352–11,264 cal BP) and ~9867 ± 36 BP (11,278–11,223 cal BP) and contains WST points, debitage, and faunal remains. Notably, the F110 faunal record includes a...

  • Measuring Past Networks of Cultural Transmission: The Haskett Projectile Point (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Stone. Loren Davis.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Advances in technology such as 3D digital scanning and spatial analysis software have provided archaeologists with novel data. Specifically, these methods increase the researcher’s ability to measure artifact morphology and past networks of cultural transmission, to potentially track the movement of past peoples and ideas through space and time....

  • A Synchronic Perspective of Early Holocene Occupation at the Cooper’s Ferry Site in Western Idaho (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Ghergich.

    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...