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  • The Willamette River greenway : environmental and attitudinal considerations

    Creator:
    Honey, William D.
    Abstract:
    The Willamette River Basin, Oregon, viewed in terms of a cultural-ecological system, has been subject to three phases of cultural development: hunting and gathering, agrarian, and industrial-urban. Each population base has employed a technology to exploit the environment to the extent that its patterns of culture would allow. This technology...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

    Creator:
    Hylton, Lindon B.
    Abstract:
    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy

  • Subsistence variability in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Havercroft, Francine M.
    Abstract:
    During the summer of 1981, Oregon State University archaeologically tested three prehistoric sites on the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. Among the sites tested were typical Willamette Valley floodplain and adjacent upland sites. Most settlement-subsistence pattern models proposed for the Willamette Valley have been generated with data from the...
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    in the Willamette Valley by Francine M. Havercroft A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University

  • Nine native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Cervantes, Willan A.
    Abstract:
    The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
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    Willamette Valley- Oregon USA. Presented in on defense Abstract approved

  • Recognizing individual potters in historic Oregon sites : a visual and chemical analysis of early Oregon redware

    Creator:
    Peterson, Ella M.
    Abstract:
    This paper discusses research concerning redware vessel sherds found in an archaeological excavation at Oregon's historic Champoeg State Park, and comparative artifacts from four known Oregon and Washington late nineteenth pottery production sites. Visual and Instrumental Nuclear Activation Analysis comparison studies were conducted on samples from each site. The New...
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    Portland Oregon. It is on the south bank of the Willamette River. The meaning and origin of the name