Two Millennia of Resilience: The Old Town Bandon Site on the Oregon Coast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Old Town Bandon site is a large archaeological site on the Oregon Coast that lies beneath the sidewalks of a settler community. The site has been the subject of over 30 years of archaeological research guided by the Coquille Indian Tribe. This work has revealed the remains of several plank houses and other domestic features, shell midden deposits, and an extensive array of artifacts and ecofacts. The site was also featured in an egregious massacre of Coquille people in 1854, and of communal celebrations by Coquille People through Termination and Restoration and to the present day. As such the site as a place is an important peak in the phenomenology of colonialism in the region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35909.0