Archaeological Evidence for Bighorn Sheep in the Portland Basin
Author(s): Brennan Bajdek; Terry Ozbun; Cameron Walker
Year: 2017
Summary
The Burnett Site (35CL96) in Lake Oswego, Oregon, has yielded important information about settlement, subsistence, and lithic technology in the Portland Basin during the Early Archaic. The lithic assemblage is dominated by Cascade-style projectile points, but also contains a high percentage of bifaces and expedient flake technology. The identification of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) blood residues on both hunting and processing tools from the site provides new data about the resources used by early Archaic hunter-gatherer groups in the region as well as changes in animal habitats, suggesting drastic paleoenvironmental shifts have occurred in the northwest Willamette Valley between the Early and Middle Holocene.
Cite this Record
Archaeological Evidence for Bighorn Sheep in the Portland Basin. Brennan Bajdek, Terry Ozbun, Cameron Walker. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 430425)
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Keywords
General
Bighorn Sheep
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Blood Residue Analysis
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Early Archaic
Geographic Keywords
North America - NW Coast/Alaska
Spatial Coverage
min long: -169.717; min lat: 42.553 ; max long: -122.607; max lat: 71.301 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 16152