Establishing a Chronology for the Fort Point Site (35CU11) along the Southern Oregon Coast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Fort Point (35-CU-11) is a pre-contact midden located on a marine terrace overlooking an important natural and historical feature known as Battle Rock along the southern Oregon Coast. Field investigation that took place in 2019 along the main promontory of the site revealed dense midden deposits that provide useful data on subsistence and residential patterns which were largely focused around semi-permanent villages situated along estuaries, the outer coast, and the main stems of the region’s larger rivers. As part of the preliminary stage of our investigation, we report on the first radiocarbon dates from this project, compare these with previously recovered data from the East Locus of the site, and contextualize our findings with what is currently known from other Late Holocene sites in the region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37412.0