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  • Lower Salmon River Cultural Resource Management Plan

    Creator:
    Sisson, David A.
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    Cultural resource inventories have identified,205 individual sites on public land along the Lower Salmon River, Idaho. These sites represent a rich and diverse record of the human occupation and utilization of the river canyon during the past 10,000 years. Each of these 205 sites contains its own unique record of...
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    region. The Lower Salmon River is the only remaining portion of the region that has not been innudated

  • 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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    deserve recognition. I would first like to thank the Umatilla National Forest for the Cooperative

  • 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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    Northwest fur industry AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Donnell J. Rogers for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • 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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    .\\ Abstract Approved: About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in

  • The Role of Southern Oregon's Coastal Islands in Prehistoric Subsistence

    Creator:
    Gard, Howard A.
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    The portion of the Oregon coast extending from Cape Blanco south into California has long been recognized as a distinct physiographic region, with probable ramifications for prehistoric subsistence and settlement patterns. Several researchers have proposed models outlining a greater reliance upon marine/littoral resources among groups within this region, while more...
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    Interdisciplinary Studies in the co-departments of Anthropology. Fisheries and Wildlife, and Geography presented

  • Cultural Resource Protectors : A Survey of Federal Archaeologists and Cultural Resource Specialists in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Schmidt, Chester Allan
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    There is a widespread problem with looting and vandalism of cultural resources in the Pacific Northwest. To combat this problem law enforcement must have the assistance of the archaeological community. To be able to assist law enforcement, archaeologists and cultural resource specialists must have the proper training in cultural resource...
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    , the threat to cultural resources in the Northwest is just as real and critical to the national

  • 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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    abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project

  • Sharing the past effectively : an evaluation of excavations in the Passport In Time program

    Creator:
    Dickson, Catherine E.
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    The United States Forest Service's Passport In Time program is designed to involve the public in archaeology on National Forest land. Three of the program's goals are: 1) allow archaeologists to conduct research they would not otherwise have the time or the budget to conduct; 2) teach the public about...
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    themselves. Prior to this, the National Park Service had responsibility for all archaeological compliance

  • Hull -Oakes Lumber Company's Steam-Powered Sawmill : A Case Study in Industrial Archaeology

    Creator:
    Wisner, George B.
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    By examining the combined written, ethnographic and physical evidence of a surviving steam-powered sawmill in the Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest, this thesis seeks to supply new insights into the operation and adaptability of antiquated machinery during a period of rapid social and technological change and to develop a...
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    physical evidence of a surviving steam-powered sawmill in the Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest

  • 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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    ) Martinek (archaeological technician) of the Siskiyou National Forest Service. As a three person 2