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  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    fire in communal hunting of deer and elk has been recorded in the Mary's River myths (Jacobs 1945:228

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    the historical depiction of the American West. Frederick Jackson Turner presented his influential

  • Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

    Creator:
    Cole, Madeline L.
    Abstract:
    In 1982 a protohistoric archaeological site along the Applegate River in southwest Oregon was excavated by Oregon State University Department of Anthropology. Three housepits and a possible menstrual but were uncovered with lithic, faunal, and archaeobotanical elements recovered from house floors and hearths. Seven botanical taxa were represented by carbonized...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , ethnographic, and ethnobotanical data. Melville Jacobs, a student of Franz Boas, concentrated during 1938-1939