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  • Material Expressions of Class, Status and Authority amongst Commissioned Officers at Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon, 1856-1866

    Creator:
    Eichelberger, Justin E.
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    During the 19th century the United States Army was a military institution characterized by a hierarchical system of authoritative, social and economic inequality between members of its different military grades. Although necessary for insuring military discipline within the Army this system of inequality also influenced the non-military social lives of...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Justin E. Eichelberger

  • 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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Catherine E. Dickson for the

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    Effects of the Mazama Tephra-Falls: A Geoarchaeological Approach by Stephan E. Matz A THESIS

  • Foodways at Fort Yamhill, 1856-1866 : an archaeological and archival perspective

    Creator:
    Eichelberger, Justin E.
    Abstract:
    Fort Yamhill, located in the eastern foothills of the Oregon Coast Range near modern day Grand Ronde, Oregon, was a U.S. Army post established in March 1856 as part of a three fort system to guard the newly established Coast Reservation and to provide a Union presence in the state...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Justin E. Eichelberger for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

  • Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

    Creator:
    Possiel, William John
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    The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity, generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information, however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily understood by the general public. This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    course of this study. Thanks to Dr. Thomas McC1 intock , Dr. Mary Lee Nolan , James Folts, and Dr. Fred

  • The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

    Creator:
    Boulware, Brooke L.
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    A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    .......................................................................... 84 Figure 36 – Genevieve Longtain Herbert McCann; Grave marker of Thomas Herbert and Genevieve

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    ). Archaeological studies that included peripheral communities (e.g. Caywood 1954; Thomas and Hibbs 1984) expected a

  • Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Kinoshita, Jun R.
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    Using GIS, this study creates a predictive model of a distinct population of French-Canadian settlers, highlighting shared environmental characteristics of known sites that may have factored into their decision-making process as they chose locations for their farmsteads. While traditional historic and archaeological research has been conducted on French Prairie, the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ................................................. 113 Appendix E: Metadata for the Soils Theme

  • Regional Archaeological Model of the Luckiamute Band Settlement Patterns

    Creator:
    Bell, James Walter
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    Human settlement patterns are the ways in which people locate themselves over the terrain in their area of occupation. Settlement pattern prediction attempts to define and understand the factors in culture, technology, and environment that shape the spatial distribution of habitation sites for a given group of people. A systematic...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Dr. David Brauner, Dr. Thomas Hogg, Dr. Charles Rosenfeld and Marty Rosenson are appreciated. I

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

    Creator:
    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
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    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 stoneware and redware ceramics. Bryn Thomas, who is adapting Sprague's classification system to a