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

Creator:

Matz, Stephan E.

Abstract:

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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Masters Thesis

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), Williams and Goles (1968), Lidstrom (1972), Mullineaux and Wilcox (1980), Bacon (1983), and others
Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Creator:

Purdy, Sarah E.

Abstract:

For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...

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Masters Thesis
Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:

Paullin, Pamela K.

Abstract:

Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...

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Masters Thesis