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Filtering by: Creator Scott, Sophia L. M. Remove constraint Creator: Scott, Sophia L. M. Advisor Brauner, David R. Remove constraint Advisor: Brauner, David R. Degree Name Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.) Remove constraint Degree Name: Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.)

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  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

    Creator:
    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexandra L. Simmons

  • Battle of Big Bend

    Creator:
    Applen, Jeffery A.
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    The Battle of Big Bend was the last significant battle of the Rogue River Indian Wars. The battle occurred 27-28 May 1856 in the Oregon Territory. The location of the battle was along the Rogue River at a place known as the Big Bend, approximately eight miles up river from...
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    similar to that used by Scott and Fox (1987) at the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana

  • The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

    Creator:
    Matz, Stephan E.
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    About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
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    talents to the numerous drafts of this thesis. Both Doug Scott and Melissa Conner gave me a place to

  • A Preliminary Archaeological Predictive Model for the US 30 Transportation Corridor, Portland, Oregon to Astoria, Oregon

    Creator:
    Kachadoorian, Lydia A.
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    This thesis is a preliminary archaeological predictive model and project-planning tool created for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) as part of a statewide planning effort to enhance the agency's ability to assess the potential impacts of highway projects on archaeological resources. This model addresses the archaeological sensitivity of the...
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    sedimentary rocks and volcanic material \.L : Portland Figure 1. General geologic map of the US 30 highway

  • Origin of the Tucannon phase in Lower Snake River prehistory

    Creator:
    Lucas, Steven W.
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    Approximately 5,500 years ago a discreet period of wetter and cooler environmental conditions prevailed across the southern Columbia Plateau. This period was marked by the first prominent episodes of erosion to occur along the lower Snake River following the height of the Altithermal and eruption of Mt. Mazama during the...
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  • Ku on the Columbia : Hawaiian laborers in the Pacific Northwest Fur Industry

    Creator:
    Rogers, Donnell J.
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    Archaeological investigations can reveal persistent traditions of ethnic groups. Hawaiians were employed in the fur trade of the Columbia River from 1810 through 1850. The Hudson's Bay Company employed them at Ft. Vancouver, Washington from 1825 through the end of this period. Data from the excavations of the servant's village...
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    quality was exploited wherever it was found, one quarry is located at 3,770 m. altitude on Mauna Kea

  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

    Creator:
    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
    Abstract:
    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
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    the Champoeg area (Scott 1923:245-246). According to Hussey, "even more significant is the fact that